CVE-1999-0525

IP traceroute is allowed from arbitrary hosts.

Published: 1997-01-01 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-1999-0525 is rated Critical Risk (88.3/100): medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.06%). EPSS rose +2.45% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. High exploitation likelihood—assess exposure and prioritize remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-1999-0525

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 2026-06-15 0.61% 3.06% +2.45%
2 2025-06-16 0.92% 0.61% -0.31%
3 2025-03-30 — 0.92% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-1999-0525

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
0.0 2.0 LOW
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:N 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:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 0.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-1999-0525

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-1999-0525

Impact: This Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) entry is a configuration issue and not a software flaw. As such, it doesn’t fit in the CVE software flaw list. The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score for this CVE entry has been set to 0 because this CVE entry has no impact as a software flaw according to CVSS. This does not mean that the configuration issue is not important and there may be security implications relative to computers having this configuration.

Affected software / configurations for CVE-1999-0525

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-1999-0525

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