CVE-1999-0116Medium· 5.0▾ TwilightPoC availableDenial of service when an attacker sends many SYN packets to create multiple connections without ever sending an ACK to complete the connection, aka SYN flood.
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 27.5 · likelihood 1.1 · exploitation 12
A public proof-of-concept already exists for this vulnerability — see Exploit availability below.
Public exploit / PoC code seen in 1 source. Availability, not in-the-wild use.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Jul 4.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
Last analysed / modified upstream
5.5%
5.5% → 5.7%
Exploit-DB (last check)
Denial of service when an attacker sends many SYN packets to create multiple connections without ever sending an ACK to complete the connection, aka SYN flood.
Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.