CVEvulnerability
CVE-1999-0981
5.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 1999-12-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
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."
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer (<= 5.01)
• microsoft internet explorer 4.0.1
• microsoft internet explorer 5.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3B%5BLN%5D%3BQ246094 support.microsoft.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/1999/ms99-050 docs.microsoft.com
- http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3B%5BLN%5D%3BQ246094 support.microsoft.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/1999/ms99-050 docs.microsoft.com