Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-1999-1050

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-1999-1050 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in Matt Wright's FormHandler.cgi script, allowing remote attackers to read arbitrary files. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) can be exploited with low attack complexity and no authentication, potentially leading to information disclosure. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the KEV catalog, exploit code for this issue is publicly available, though it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:matt_wright:formhandler.cgi:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:matt_wright:formhandler.cgi:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:matt_wright:formhandler.cgi:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-19620 · Nov 16, 1999
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0785 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/3550
securityfocus.com / archive/1/34600
securityfocus.com / archive/1/34939
ExploitVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/798
ExploitVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/799
ExploitVendor Advisory