Vulnerability Report

CVE-1999-1224

Title: CVE-1999-1224

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-1999-1224.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 08, 1997

Modified Date Apr 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.17%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-1999-1224: IMAP 4.1 BETA, and possibly other versions, does not properly handle the SIGABRT (abort) signal, which allows local users to crash the server (imapd) via certain sequences of commands, which causes a core dump that may contain sensitive password information.

Impacted Vendors

university_of_washington 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87635124302928&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/349 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87635124302928&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/349

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-1999-1224 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.