CVE-1999-1412

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 35.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 1999-06-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

A possible interaction between Apple MacOS X release 1.0 and Apache HTTP server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a flood of HTTP GET requests to CGI programs, which generates a large number of processes.

Affected products

Apache HTTP Server: all versions
Apple macOS: 1.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/14215
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/306
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/14215
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/306

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