01 Record
CVE-1999-1265
SMTP server in SLmail 3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed commands whose arguments begin with a "(" (parenthesis) character, such as (1) SEND, (2) VRFY,
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
SMTP server in SLmail 3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed commands whose arguments begin with a "(" (parenthesis) character, such as (1) SEND, (2) VRFY,
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
- 1.61% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 75.6% 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
- 2001-09-12 04:00Z25 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-01 17:11Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2001-08-31
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- d1b0ee8bda3eeb5b1dc1276ae86c0354478b759e0e639c7b83653d120797709b
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comslmail-parens-overload(1664)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/1664
- marc.info19980922 WARNING! SMTP Denial of Service in SLmail ver 3.1http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=90650438826447&w=2
- marc.info19980922 WARNING! SMTP Denial of Service in SLmail ver 3.1http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90649892424117&w=2