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CVE-1999-1478

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 18.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-03-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Sun HotSpot Performance Engine VM allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service on any server running HotSpot via a URL that includes the [ character.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Information Server: 3.0, 4.0

References

• http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=93138827429589&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=93240220324183&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/522
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/2348
• http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=93138827429589&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=93240220324183&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/522
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/2348

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