CVE-1999-1235

Medium CVSS 4.6

Published 1999-08-25 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1235, 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

Internet Explorer 5.0 records the username and password for FTP servers in the URL history, which could allow (1) local users to read the information from another user's index.dat, or (2) people who are physically observing ("shoulder surfing") another user to read the information from the status bar when the user moves the mouse over a link.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1235

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