CVE Catalog

CVE-1999-0107

Medium
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
19.94%

97th percentile - higher than 97% of all known CVEs

Summary

Buffer overflow in Apache 1.2.5 and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service with a large number of GET requests containing a large number of / characters.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can disrupt server access, leading to service outages for users.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade to a newer version of Apache to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor server logs for potential attacks.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in Apache 1.2.5 and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service with a large number of GET requests containing a large number of / characters.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS