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CVE-1999-1581

Memory leak in Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent (snmp.exe) for Windows NT 4.0...

5.0 Medium

Memory leak in Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent (snmp.exe) for Windows NT 4.0 before Service Pack 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of SNMP packets with Object Identifiers (OIDs) that cannot be decoded.

Exploit likelihood

20.6%Up 9.0 points since Feb 4, 2022
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What each source reports

NVD Score used 5.0

Memory leak in Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent (snmp.exe) for Windows NT 4.0 before Service Pack 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of SNMP packets with Object Identifiers (OIDs) that cannot be decoded.

Record
CVE-1999-1581
CVSS 2.0
5.0 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

Memory leak in Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent (snmp.exe) for Windows NT 4.0 before Service Pack 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of SNMP packets with Object Identifiers (OIDs) that cannot be decoded.

Record
CVE-1999-1581
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-1999-1562 No score

Memory leak in Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent (snmp.exe) for Windows NT 4.0 before Service Pack 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of SNMP packets with Object Identifiers (OIDs) that cannot be decoded.

Record
EUVD-1999-1562
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-hhg9-7r53-5rpr No score

Memory leak in Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent (snmp.exe) for Windows NT 4.0...

Memory leak in Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent (snmp.exe) for Windows NT 4.0 before Service Pack 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of SNMP packets with Object Identifiers (OIDs) that cannot be decoded.

Record
GHSA-hhg9-7r53-5rpr
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
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In short

CVE-1999-1581 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) in Microsoft Windows Nt, published December 23, 1997. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 20.6%, the 97th percentile. No source names a fixed version.

References

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