CVE-1999-1284: Puppets Place Nukenabber

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NukeNabber allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by connecting to the NukeNabber port (1080) without sending any data, which causes the CPU usage to rise to 100% from the report.exe program that is executed upon the connection.

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Published 1998-11-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.