Vulnerability in Debian Linux

CVE-1999-0742

The Debian mailman package uses weak authentication, which allows attackers to gain privileges.

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (65.9th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 66th percentile — 65.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-1999-0742: held from 0.012 to 0.012.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: -0.000

Affected products

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