CVE-1999-1298

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Sysinstall in FreeBSD 2.2.1 and earlier, when configuring anonymous FTP, creates the ftp user without a password and with /bin/date as the shell, which could allow attackers to gain access to certain system resources.

Sysinstall in FreeBSD 2.2.1 and earlier, when configuring anonymous FTP, creates the ftp user without a password and with /bin/date as the shell, which could allow attackers to gain access to certain system resources.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 27 years ago

1997-04-07 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-10 19:01:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 2.1.0

2.1.0

FreeBSD 2.1.5

2.1.5

FreeBSD 2.1.6

2.1.6

FreeBSD 2.1.7

2.1.7

FreeBSD 2.2

2.2

FreeBSD

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