CVE-1999-0981

Medium CVSS 5.1

Published 1999-12-08 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-0981, 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 5.01 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."

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-0981

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