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CVE-1999-0418

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
08/03/1999
Last modified:
03/04/2025

Description

Denial of service in SMTP applications such as Sendmail, when a remote attacker (e.g. spammer) uses many "RCPT TO" commands in the same connection.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.40 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
6.40
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

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