Eudora and Eudora Light before 3.05 allows remote attackers to cause a crash and corrupt the user's mailbox via an e-mail message with certain dates, such as (1) dates before 1970, which cause a Divide By Zero error, or (2) dates that are 100 years after the current date, which causes a segmentation fault.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-1999-1448 is rated Low Risk (38.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.79%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.
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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 | 0.57% | 0.79% | +0.22% |
| 2 | 2025-03-17 | 0.27% | 0.57% | +0.30% |
| 3 | 2023-03-07 | — | 0.27% | — |
Full EPSS history (4 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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10.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| qualcomm | eudora | <= 3.05 | cpe:2.3:a:qualcomm:eudora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| qualcomm | eudora_light | <= 3.05 | cpe:2.3:a:qualcomm:eudora_light:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |