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Overview
Vulnerability Score	5.0
CVE Id	CVE-1999-1472
Last Modified	05 Sep 2008 04:19:36
Published	31 Dec 1999 12:00:00
Confidentiality Impact	PARTIAL
Integrity Impact	NONE
Availability Impact	NONE
Access Vector	NETWORK
Access Complexity	LOW
Authentication	NONE

CVE-1999-1472

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Systems

Application

• Microsoft Ie 4.0

References

XF - http-ie-spy(587)

MISC - http://www.insecure.org/sploits/Internet_explorer_4.0.hack.html

MSKB - Q176794

MSKB - Q176697

CONFIRM - http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/ie/security/freiburg.asp

OSVDB - 7819

BUGTRAQ - 19971017 Security Hole in Explorer 4.0