Vulnerability in Internic Whois Lookup

CVE-1999-0983

Whois Internic Lookup program whois.cgi allows remote attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the domain entry.

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.027 (85.6th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 85.6% 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-1999-0983: held from 0.027 to 0.027.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.027 · newest: 0.027 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-1999-0983?
CVE-1999-0983 is a vulnerability in Internic Whois Lookup. Published 1999-11-09.
Is CVE-1999-0983 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.