{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 4 products.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-1999-1016 exists.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-1999-1016 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-1999-1016 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 12 Sep 2001. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-1999-1016 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-1999-1016 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 12 Sep 2001. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-1999-1016 exists.\n\nAffected product: Microsoft Internet Explorer. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1016/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1016/index.md)","id":"CVE-1999-1016","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1016/index.md","name":"CVE-1999-1016","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-33jr-59q9-j8vq"],"analysis":{"component_type":"browser","fix_type":"no_fix_stated","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Microsoft HTML control","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can cause denial of service via large HTML form fields in applications using the Microsoft HTML control, requiring user interaction.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"frontpage","vendor":"microsoft"},{"product":"internet_explorer","vendor":"microsoft"},{"product":"outlook_express","vendor":"microsoft"},{"product":"eudora","vendor":"qualcomm"}],"cvss":{"score":5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[],"description":"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"1999-08-27","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"1999-08-27","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"19471","stars":null,"title":"Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 - HTML Form Control Denial of Service"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1016","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"microsoft:internet_explorer","products":["microsoft:internet_explorer"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"1999"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1017"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1015"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2001-09-12","related":[{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2004-0573","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2004-09-17"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Cross-site scripting in n/a","id":"CVE-2000-0746","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2000-09-21"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2000-0260","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2000-06-02"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2000-0256","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2000-04-26"},{"cvss_score":7,"headline":"Security feature bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-0012","kev_date_added":null,"published":"1999-09-29"},{"cvss_score":6.4,"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2007-3109","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2007-06-07"},{"cvss_score":5,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2004-2179","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2005-07-10"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-01","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can cause denial of service via large HTML form fields in applications using the Microsoft HTML control, requiring user interaction.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1016/"}