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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-1999-0103 json

Echo and chargen, or other combinations of UDP services, can be used in tandem to flood the server, a.k.a.

published 1996-02-08 30 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-1999-0103

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
15.1%
EPSS 15.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Metasploit

Summary

Echo and chargen, or other combinations of UDP services, can be used in tandem to flood the server, a.k.a. UDP bomb or UDP packet storm.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSMA-18-233-01 updated cvss 5.7

Philips IntelliVue Information Center iX (Update B)

  • Philips IntelliVue Information Center iX B.02
    affected: vendor fix

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit auxiliary/scanner/chargen/chargen_probe)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

15.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.