CVE-1999-1525: Macromedia Shockwave Flash Plugin

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Macromedia Shockwave before 6.0 allows a malicious webmaster to read a user's mail box and possibly access internal web servers via the GetNextText command on a Shockwave movie.

Affected products

• Macromedia Shockwave Flash Plugin: up to and including 6.0

Published 1997-03-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.