- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 53.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 26Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
A Unix account has a default, null, blank, or missing password.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 25 Metasploit modules and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits21
Metasploit modulesnewest 20 of 25 modules
- SSH User Code Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/ssh/sshexecRank manualdisclosed 1 Jan 1999
- DB2 Authentication Brute Force Utility (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/db2/db2_authRank normal
- FTP Authentication Scanner (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/ftp/ftp_loginRank normal
- Dell iDRAC Default Login (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/http/dell_idracRank normal
- D-Link DIR-300A / DIR-320 / DIR-615D HTTP Login Utility (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/http/dlink_dir_300_615_http_loginRank normal
- D-Link DIR-615H HTTP Login Utility (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/http/dlink_dir_615h_http_loginRank normal
- D-Link DIR-300B / DIR-600B / DIR-815 / DIR-645 HTTP Login Utility (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/http/dlink_dir_session_cgi_http_loginRank normal
- HTTP Login Utility (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/http/http_loginRank normal
- Joomla Bruteforce Login Utility (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/http/joomla_bruteforce_loginRank normal
- Tomcat Application Manager Login Utility (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/http/tomcat_mgr_loginRank normal
- Wordpress XML-RPC Username/Password Login Scanner (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/http/wordpress_xmlrpc_loginRank normal
- MySQL Login Utility (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/mysql/mysql_loginRank normal
- NNTP Login Utility (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/nntp/nntp_loginRank normal
- Oracle RDBMS Login Utility (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/oracle/oracle_loginRank normal
- PcAnywhere Login Scanner (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/pcanywhere/pcanywhere_loginRank normal
- PostgreSQL Login Utility (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/postgres/postgres_loginRank normal
- rexec Authentication Scanner (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/rservices/rexec_loginRank normal
- rlogin Authentication Scanner (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/rservices/rlogin_loginRank normal
- rsh Authentication Scanner (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/rservices/rsh_loginRank normal
- SSH Login Check Scanner (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/ssh/ssh_loginRank normal
Exploit-DB1 entry
- SSH - User Code Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 41694remote, multiplepublished 1 Jan 1999Verified
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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 53.3% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
1
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0502 (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-1999-0500 (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-1999-0502)Record last updated .