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CVE-1999-0228

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-1999-0228 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the RPCSS.EXE program (RPC Locator) in Microsoft Windows NT. This medium-severity flaw, with a CVSS score of 5.0, allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service with low attack complexity. Despite its age, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it has received no community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0497 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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

support.microsoft.com / default.aspx