CVE-1999-0490: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 9.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MSHTML.DLL in Internet Explorer 5.0 allows a remote attacker to learn information about a local user's files via an IMG SRC tag.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only

Published 1999-04-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.