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CVE-1999-0021

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FAUCET Score

CVE-1999-0021 identifies a buffer overflow vulnerability within the Count.cgi (wwwcount) cgi-bin program developed by Muhammad A. Muquit. Rated with a CVSS score of 7.5, this high-severity flaw permits unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a network vector with low complexity, posing significant risks to system integrity and availability. While historical proof-of-concept code is available via ExploitDB, there are currently no indicators of active exploitation in the wild or significant community discussion regarding this legacy issue.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:muhammad_a._muquit:wwwcount:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
26.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-19105 · Oct 16, 1997
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2667 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

securityfocus.com / bid/128