CVE-1999-1478

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The Sun HotSpot Performance Engine VM allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service on any server running HotSpot via a URL that includes the [ character.

The Sun HotSpot Performance Engine VM allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service on any server running HotSpot via a URL that includes the [ character.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft IIS

First reported 25 years ago

1999-07-06 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

Microsoft IIS 3.0

3.0

Microsoft IIS 4.0

4.0

References

19990706 Bug in SUN's Hotspot VM

19990716 FW: (Review ID: 85125) Hotspot crashes bringing down webserver

522

sun-hotspot-vm(2348)

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