CVE-1999-0612
Published Mar 1, 1997
Last updated 2 years ago
Overview
- Description
- A version of finger is running that exposes valid user information to any entity on the network.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 0
- Impact score
- 0
- Exploitability score
- 10
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Evaluator
- Comment
- -
- Impact
- This Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) entry is a configuration issue and not a software flaw. As such, it doesn’t fit in the CVE software flaw list. The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score for this CVE entry has been set to 0 because this CVE entry has no impact as a software flaw according to CVSS. This does not mean that the configuration issue is not important and there may be security implications relative to computers having this configuration.
- Solution
- This Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) entry is a configuration issue and not a software flaw. As such, it doesn’t fit in the CVE software flaw list. The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score for this CVE entry has been set to 0 because this CVE entry has no impact as a software flaw according to CVSS. This does not mean that the configuration issue is not important and there may be security implications relative to computers having this configuration.
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:finger_service:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "8572DBD7-169E-4012-A5BA-4E50412526E6"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:fingerd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "843643A1-2F59-4F76-8E94-B45C88806345"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
},
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "4E545C63-FE9C-4CA1-AF0F-D999D84D2AFD"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "ED27882B-A02A-4D5F-9117-A47976C676E0"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]