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CVE-1999-0144
Denial of service in Qmail by specifying a large number of recipients with the RCPT command.
Low2.1EPSS 1.3%
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- mitre
Description
Denial of service in Qmail by specifying a large number of recipients with the RCPT command.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- qmail-rcpt(208) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 19970612 Re: Denial of service (qmail-smtpd) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 2237 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 19970612 qmail-dos-2.c, another denial of service attack (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://cr.yp.to/qmail/venema.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1997/06/threads.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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