CVE-1999-0661 describes a critical vulnerability where legitimate software distributions were replaced with Trojan Horse versions, impacting products such as TCP Wrappers, util-linux, wu-ftpd, ircII, OpenSSH, and Sendmail. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 10.0 (Critical), indicating a network-exploitable flaw with low attack complexity, allowing for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, an exploit for the Sendmail 8.12.6 variant exists on ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 96/100. Despite its age and high severity, there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| 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
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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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.