CVE-1999-0146

Exp

The campas CGI program provided with some NCSA web servers allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands via encoded carriage return characters in the query string, as demonstrated by reading the password file.

Published: 1997-07-15 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-1999-0146 is rated High Exploit Risk (82.9/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 12.94%, 94th percentile). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +6.34% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-1999-0146

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
20423 exploit_db edb 1997-07-15 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-1999-0146

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-21 6.60% 12.94% +6.34%
2 2025-10-15 5.26% 6.60% +1.34%
3 2025-03-30 — 5.26% —

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-1999-0146

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-1999-0146

OS Trackers for CVE-1999-0146

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-1999-0146: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-1999-0146

Affected software / configurations for CVE-1999-0146

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
ncsa campas — cpe:2.3:a:ncsa:campas:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ncsa servers — cpe:2.3:a:ncsa:servers:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-1999-0146

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