CVE-1999-0981

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
4.6%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 11% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: December 8, 1999 (9654 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Internet Explorer 5.01 and earlier allows a remote attacker to create a reference to a client window and use a server-side redirect to access local files via that window, aka "Server-side Page Reference Redirect."

CWE

CWE-59

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 support.microsoft.com 🔗 docs.microsoft.com 🔗 support.microsoft.com 🔗 docs.microsoft.com