CVE-1999-0981: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 13.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: up to and including 5.01; version 4.0.1 only; version 5.0 only

Published 1999-12-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.