CVE-1999-0517

medium

Published 1997-01-01 · Modified 2026-05-28

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CVSS v3

5.9

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.9

Description

An SNMP community name is the default (e.g. public), null, or missing.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

59%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/snmp/snmp_enum rank 300

SNMP Enumeration Module

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

auxiliary_scanner/snmp/snmp_login rank 300

SNMP Community Login Scanner

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.