CVE-1999-0489

High CVSS 10

Published 1999-05-17 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-0489, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

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.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-0489

CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C