CVE-1999-1357

Summary

CVE-1999-1357 is a vulnerability affecting Netscape Communicator 4.04 through 4.7 on various UNIX operating systems. This issue arises from the software's mishandling of specific characters - 0x8b being converted to "<" and 0x9b to ">" - which can lead to cross-site scripting (CSS) attacks. Attackers can exploit this flaw in CGI programs that fail to filter these characters, potentially launching attacks on other clients.

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