CVE-1999-0481

Medium

Published: 22/03/1999(UTC)Updated: 16/06/2026(UTC)Translated: 18/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk

0.96%

57th percentile - higher than 57% of all known CVEs

CVE-1999-0481 vulnerability concerns the 'poll' service in OpenBSD, which can lead to a denial of service.

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disrupt service availability, impacting system accessibility.

It is recommended to update the OpenBSD system to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

Denial of service in "poll" in OpenBSD.