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CVE-1999-0489

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 12.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2000-02-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

MSHTML.DLL in Internet Explorer 5.0 allows a remote attacker to paste a file name into the file upload intrinsic control, a variant of "untrusted scripted paste" as described in MS:MS98-013.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Nt: 4.0

References

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/1999/ms99-015
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/1999/ms99-015

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