CVE-1999-0975: Microsoft Windows 95

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Windows help system can allow a local user to execute commands as another user by editing a table of contents metafile with a .CNT extension and modifying the topic action to include the commands to be executed when the .hlp file is accessed.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 95: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98: any version
• Microsoft Windows Nt: version 4.0 only

Published 1999-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.