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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-1999-1478 json

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 in…

published 1999-07-06 27 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-1999-1459

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
18.3%
EPSS 18.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Exploit prediction

18.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

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

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