{"id":"CVE-1999-1277","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-1999-1277","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:40:17.606Z","title":"BackWeb client stores the username and password in cleartext for proxy authentication in the Communication registry key, which could allow other local users to gain privileges by reading the password.","description":"BackWeb client stores the username and password in cleartext for proxy authentication in the Communication registry key, which could allow other local users to gain privileges by reading the password.","published":"1998-12-24T05:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T21:50:06.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4.6,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":[],"affected":["backweb technologies/backweb client"],"epss":{"score":0.00315,"percentile":0.24188,"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 (0.32%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=91487886514546&w=2","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/1565","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=91487886514546&w=2","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/1565","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1277","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."}