CVE-1999-1472: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 17.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 4.0 only

Published 1999-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.