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.
Exploits (1)
exploitdb
WORKING POC
VERIFIED
by Neon Bunny · htmldoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19471
Scores
EPSS
0.0766
EPSS Percentile
91.9%
Details
Status
published
Products (4)
microsoft/frontpage
microsoft/internet_explorer
5.0
microsoft/outlook_express
5.0
qualcomm/eudora
Published
Aug 27, 1999
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026