Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-1999-0981
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."
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.1 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.131 (96.2th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.131 · newest: 0.131 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 4.0.1, 5.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/1999/ms99-050 (vendor-advisory)
- support.microsoft.com/default.aspx (vendor-advisory)