CVE-1999-0490

High CVSS 7.5

Published 1999-04-21 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-0490, 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 learn information about a local user's files via an IMG SRC tag.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-0490

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