CVE-1999-1447

Medium CVSS 5

Published 1998-07-28 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1447, 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 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via HTML code that contains a long CLASSID parameter in an OBJECT tag.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1447

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