CVE-1999-1357

Summary

CVE-1999-1357 is a vulnerability affecting Netscape Communicator 4.04 through 4.7 on various UNIX operating systems. The issue arises due to the software converting specific characters, 0x8b to "<" and 0x9b to ">", which can result in unintended HTML tag interpretations. Malicious actors could exploit this cross-site scripting (CSS) vulnerability in CGI programs that fail to filter these characters, potentially leading to code injection and unauthorized access to user information.

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