Vulnerability in Netscape Communicator
CVE-1999-1002
Netscape Navigator uses weak encryption for storing a user's Netscape mail password.
Published · last modified .
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: 0.008 (54.3th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 54th percentile — 54.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Netscape Communicator — versions 4.7
References
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.rstcorp.com/news/bad-crypto.html (Vendor Advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)