CVE-1999-1016

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
7.7%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 8% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: August 27, 1999 (9757 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

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.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft frontpagemicrosoft internet explorermicrosoft outlook expressqualcomm eudora

References

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