CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1235

Published: Aug 25, 1999 | Modified: Jul 22, 2021
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 users 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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Internet_explorer Microsoft 5.0 5.0

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