CVE-1999-1072: Excite Ews

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Excite for Web Servers (EWS) 1.1 allows local users to gain privileges by obtaining the encrypted password from the world-readable Architext.conf authentication file and replaying the encrypted password in an HTTP request to AT-generated.cgi or AT-admin.cgi.

Affected products

• Excite Ews: version 1.1 only

Published 1998-11-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.