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CVE-1999-1338

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-1999-1338 describes a vulnerability in Delegate proxy version 5.9.3 and earlier, where the software creates files and directories within the DGROOT with world-writable permissions. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) allows an unauthenticated attacker to modify data (I:P) due to the insecure permissions, though it does not directly impact confidentiality or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this very old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:delegate:delegate:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
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
0.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0098 is in the 37th 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

marc.info