CVE-1999-1016: Microsoft Frontpage

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft HTML control as used in (1) Internet Explorer 5.0, (2) FrontPage Express, (3) Outlook Express 5, and (4) Eudora, and possibly others, allows remote malicious web site or HTML emails to cause a denial of service (100% CPU consumption) via large HTML form fields such as text inputs in a table cell.

Affected products

• Microsoft Frontpage: any version
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.0 only
• Microsoft Outlook Express: version 5.0 only
• Qualcomm Eudora: any version

Published 1999-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.