Microsoft Internet Explorer HTML Form Control Large Fields resource consumption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Microsoft Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Frontpage Express. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component HTML Form Control. The manipulation as part of Large Fields leads to resource consumption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-1999-1016. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Microsoft Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Frontpage Express (Web Browser) (affected version not known). This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component HTML Form Control. The manipulation as part of a Large Fields leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was disclosed 08/27/1999 as not defined posting (NTBugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at marc.theaimsgroup.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-1999-1016. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10861 (MS02-005: MSIE 5.01 5.5 6.0 Cumulative Patch (890923)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (3246), Exploit-DB (19471), Tenable (10861), SecurityFocus (BID 606†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-2717†). The entries VDB-3, VDB-45, VDB-257 and VDB-378 are pretty similar. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Resource consumption
CWE: CWE-400 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 10861
Nessus Name: MS02-005: MSIE 5.01 5.5 6.0 Cumulative Patch (890923)
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OpenVAS ID: 10861
OpenVAS Name: IE 5.01 5.5 6.0 Cumulative patch (890923)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-1999-1016 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-1999-1016
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-14807
X-Force: 3246
SecurityFocus: 606 - Microsoft HTML Form Control DoS Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 2717 - Microsoft HTML Control DoS, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 06/21/2014 21:44
Updated: 01/18/2025 15:07
Changes: 06/21/2014 21:44 (67), 04/07/2017 12:06 (1), 06/23/2021 09:49 (3), 01/18/2025 15:07 (25)
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