CVE-1999-0512 describes a misconfiguration where a mail server is explicitly set to allow SMTP mail relay, making it vulnerable to abuse by spammers. This vulnerability does not affect specific products but rather any mail server configured in this manner. It carries a critical CVSS score of 10.0, indicating a high-impact, easily exploitable flaw with complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability possible over the network. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant media coverage, though it has received minimal community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | n/aCNA affected |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.