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CVE-1999-0718

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.2)—Exploit
Severity6.2Medium · CVSS 2.0
Exploitation probability0.85 %higher than 57% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitAvailablePublished on Exploit-DB

IBM GINA, when used for OS/2 domain authentication of Windows NT users, allows local users to gain administrator privileges by changing the GroupMapping registry key.

CVSS

Base score
6.2
Version
2.0
Vector
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
0.85 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
57
Score date
10/20/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Affected technologies (1)

IBM — Gina

CWEs

References

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Raw JSON (NVD)

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