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CVE-1999-1551

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 71.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1999-03-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in Ipswitch IMail Service 5.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary commands via a long URL.

Affected products

• Ipswitch Imail: 5.0, 6.0

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=92038879607336&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/505
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/1898
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=92038879607336&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/505
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/1898

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