CVE-1999-1016

Medium CVSS 5

Published 1999-08-27 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1016, 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

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.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1016

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