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CVE-1999-0849

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-1999-0849 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting BIND named, specifically exploitable through a malformed "maxdname" field. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.0) allows an unauthenticated attacker to disrupt service with low attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this very old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.9.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:4.9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.9.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:4.9.5:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.9.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:4.9.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.9.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:4.9.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.65%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0265 is in the 77th 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

ftp.caldera.com / pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-1999-034.1.txt
sunsolve.sun.com / pub-cgi/retrieve.pl
securityfocus.com / bid/788