CVE-1999-0287

Exp

Vulnerability in the Wguest CGI program.

Published: 1999-04-09 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-1999-0287 is rated High Exploit Risk (77.5/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.58%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +2.08% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-1999-0287

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
20446 exploit_db edb 1999-04-09 Exploit-DB ↗
20447 exploit_db edb 1999-04-09 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-1999-0287

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 2025-03-17 1.50% 3.58% +2.08%
2 2023-03-07 0.89% 1.50% +0.61%
3 2022-02-04 0.89%

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-1999-0287

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-1999-0287

OS Trackers for CVE-1999-0287

vendor priority summary link
alpine CVE-1999-0287: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-1999-0287

Affected software / configurations for CVE-1999-0287

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
webcom cgi_guestbook cpe:2.3:a:webcom:cgi_guestbook:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-1999-0287

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