CVE-1999-0772

Denial of service in Compaq Management Agents and the Compaq Survey Utility via a long string sent to port 2301.

Published: 1999-06-01 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-1999-0772 is rated Moderate Risk (51.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.50%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-1999-0772

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 0.50% 1.50% +1.00%
2 2025-03-30 0.56% 0.50% -0.06%
3 2025-03-29 0.56%

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-1999-0772

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.4 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/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:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 4.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-1999-0772

Affected software / configurations for CVE-1999-0772

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
compaq insight_management_agent cpe:2.3:a:compaq:insight_management_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
compaq power_management 2.0 cpe:2.3:a:compaq:power_management:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-1999-0772

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