CVE-1999-1171: Ipswitch Imail

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IPswitch WS_FTP allows local users to gain additional privileges and modify or add mail accounts by setting the "flags" registry key to 1920.

Affected products

• Ipswitch Imail: version 5.0 only
• Progress WS_FTP Server: version 1.0.1.e only; version 1.0.2.e only

Published 1999-02-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.