CVE-1999-0144
Denial of service in Qmail by specifying a large number of recipients with the RCPT command.
- 2.1LowCVSS base score
- 1.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 29% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Denial of service in Qmail by specifying a large number of recipients with the RCPT command.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Dan Bernstein QMail 1.0 3 - RCPT Denial of Service (1) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 20561dos, linuxpublished 12 Jun 1997Verified
- Dan Bernstein QMail 1.0 3 - RCPT Denial of Service (2) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 20562dos, linuxpublished 12 Jun 1997Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 25 years later
· 25 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References6
- qmail-rcpt(208) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 19970612 Re: Denial of service (qmail-smtpd) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 2237 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 19970612 qmail-dos-2.c, another denial of service attack (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://cr.yp.to/qmail/venema.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1997/06/threads.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-1999-0144 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-1999-0144)Record last updated .