CVE-1999-1412

Http Server vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

35.3%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

A possible interaction between Apple MacOS X release 1.0 and Apache HTTP server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a flood of HTTP GET requests to CGI programs, which generates a large number of processes.

Affected vendor

Apache

Affected product

Http Server

CVSS vector

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

Published

1999-06-03

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 35.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Apache Http Server is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-1999-1412.
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