Unscored severity · published Sep 19, 1996
CVE-1999-0116
Denial of service when an attacker sends many SYN packets to create multiple connections without ever sending an ACK to complete the connection, aka SYN flood
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CVSS
5.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Denial of service when an attacker sends many SYN packets to create multiple connections without ever sending an ACK to complete the connection, aka SYN flood.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.6% · higher than 93% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-0116
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-1999-0116
sunsolve.sun.com
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/136
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