CVE-1999-0146

High CVSS 7.5

Published 1997-07-15 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-0146, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

The campas CGI program provided with some NCSA web servers allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands via encoded carriage return characters in the query string, as demonstrated by reading the password file.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-0146

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