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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-1999-0531

Original release date:01/01/1999
Last revised:08/01/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

** REJECT ** DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: None. Reason: this candidate is solely about a configuration that does not directly introduce security vulnerabilities, so it is more appropriate to cover under the Common Configuration Enumeration (CCE). Notes: the former description is: "An SMTP service supports EXPN, VRFY, HELP, ESMTP, and/or EHLO."

Solution

This functionality should be disabled, because these commands can be used for attack reconnaissance.}