CVE-1999-0174: Netscape Communicator

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 6.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The view-source CGI program allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) attack.

Affected products

• Netscape Communicator: version 4.0 only; version 4.05 only; version 4.5 only; version 4.06 only; version 4.6 only; version 4.07 only; …

Published 1997-02-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.