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CVE-1999-0290

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1998-02-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The WinGate telnet proxy allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of connections to localhost.

Affected products

• Qbik Wingate: all versions

References

• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0290
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0290

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