CVE-1999-0590 describes a vulnerability where systems fail to display a legal message or warning to users upon access, affecting products from Apple, Linux, and Microsoft. This flaw carries a critical CVSS score of 10.0, indicating a high-impact vulnerability with complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, exploitable remotely with low complexity and no authentication. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in the KEV catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.6.20.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.20.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_95:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_98:*:gold:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.