CVE-1999-1073: 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 records the first two characters of a plaintext password in the beginning of the encrypted password, which makes it easier for an attacker to guess passwords via a brute force or dictionary attack.

Affected products

• Excite Ews: version 1.1 only

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