CVE-1999-1548

Medium CVSS 5

Published 1999-11-24 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1548, 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

Cabletron SmartSwitch Router (SSR) 8000 firmware 2.x can only handle 200 ARP requests per second allowing a denial of service attack to succeed with a flood of ARP requests exceeding that limit.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1548

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