A possible interaction between Apple MacOS X release 1.0 and Apache HTTP server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash…

published 1999-06-03 27y ago modified 2026-06-16 4mo ago also EUVD-1999-1393

cvss: 5.0; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 35.9%; EPSS 35.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits: 1; Exploit-DB

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.

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Timeline

1999-06-03 First public exploit (EDB-19244)
1999-06-03 Published

Exploit prediction

35.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-14).

Exploits and checks

EDB-19244 Apple Mac OSX Server 10.0 - Overload local, 1999-06-03

CVSS scores

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

Classification

Technology feeds

Apache HTTP Server rss critical rss

References

securityfocus.com /archive/1/14215
mailing-list, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry
securityfocus.com /bid/306
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-1999-1412
NVD CVE-1999-1412

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