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CVE-1999-0490

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.9% 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 learn information about a local user's files via an IMG SRC tag.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 4.0, 5.0

References

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/1999/ms99-012
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/1999/ms99-012

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