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CVE-1999-1525

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-1999-1525 describes a vulnerability in Macromedia Shockwave versions prior to 6.0, allowing a malicious webmaster to read a user's mailbox and potentially access internal web servers. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.1) has a network attack vector, high attack complexity, and could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decades-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:macromedia:shockwave_flash_plugin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.1MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.16%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
63.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0116 is in the 27th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/1585
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/1586
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/460