01 Record
CVE-1999-0945
Buffer overflow in Internet Mail Service (IMS) for Microsoft Exchange 5.5 and 5.0 allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service via AUTH or AUTHINFO commands.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Buffer overflow in Internet Mail Service (IMS) for Microsoft Exchange 5.5 and 5.0 allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service via AUTH or AUTHINFO commands.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 19.52% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 97.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2001-05-07 04:00Z25 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-01 16:55Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 1999-12-08
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- d11e666caa0a88afb9580fd197adede3b16df7158b996fe165c6a4d3e4cc4353
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comexchange-dos(1223)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/1223
- support.microsoft.comQ169174http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3B%5BLN%5D%3BQ169174
- xforce.iss.net19980724 Denial of Service attacks against Microsoft Exchange 5.0 to 5.5http://xforce.iss.net/alerts/advise4.php
- www.ciac.orgI-080http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-080.shtml