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CVE-1999-1472

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 1999-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Internet Explorer 4.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary text and HTML files on the user's machine via a small IFRAME that uses Dynamic HTML (DHTML) to send the data to the attacker, aka the Freiburg text-viewing issue.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References