CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0421

Published: Mar 17, 1999 | Modified: Sep 09, 2008

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-0421
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

During a reboot after an installation of Linux Slackware 3.6, a remote attacker can obtain root access by logging in to the root account without a password.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Slackware_linux	Slackware	3.6 (including)	3.6 (including)

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