CVE-1999-0858

Medium CVSS 5

Published 1999-12-02 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-0858, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

Internet Explorer 5 allows a remote attacker to modify the IE client's proxy configuration via a malicious Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) server.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-0858

CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N