{"id":"CVE-1999-1263","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-1999-1263","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:53:28.225Z","title":"Metamail before 2.7-7.2 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via an e-mail message containing a uuencoded attachment that specifies the full pathname for the file to be modified, which is processed by uuencode in Metamail scripts such as…","description":"Metamail before 2.7-7.2 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via an e-mail message containing a uuencoded attachment that specifies the full pathname for the file to be modified, which is processed by uuencode in Metamail scripts such as sun-audio-file.","published":"2003-08-15T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-25T20:10:00.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":2.6,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":["metamail corporation/metamail"],"epss":{"score":0.00976,"percentile":0.61884,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.98%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87773365324657&w=2","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/1677","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87773365324657&w=2","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/1677","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1263","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}