01 Record
CVE-1999-1593
Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connectivity loss) or steal credentials via a 1Ch registration that causes WINS to change the domain
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connectivity loss) or steal credentials via a 1Ch registration that causes WINS to change the domain
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
- 18.12% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.9% 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
- 2009-01-15 01:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 23:06Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-01-14
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 7b3df3ffb4a89eda907482ea3b11b1a2f22124e999b989f3ff0b9183eb9483e0
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- archives.neohapsis.com19990302 NT Domain DoS and Security Exploit with SAMBA Serverhttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ntbugtraq/1998-1999/msg00371.html
- seclists.org20010118 Re: Invalid WINS entrieshttp://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jan/0271.html
- www2.sans.orghttps://www2.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/win2k/185.php
- www.securityfocus.com2221http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2221
- seclists.org20010117 Invalid WINS entrieshttp://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jan/0264.html
- seclists.org20010119 Re: Invalid WINS entrieshttp://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jan/0298.html
- seclists.org20010117 Re: Invalid WINS entrieshttp://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jan/0276.html
- seclists.org20010118 Re: Invalid WINS entrieshttp://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jan/0289.html
- seclists.org20010117 Re: Invalid WINS entrieshttp://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jan/0274.html
- seclists.org20010117 Re: Invalid WINS entrieshttp://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jan/0269.html