CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0656

Published: Jan 01, 1999 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

5 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-0656
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/16.html

The ugidd RPC interface, by design, allows remote attackers to enumerate valid usernames by specifying arbitrary UIDs that ugidd maps to local user and group names.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Linux_kernel	Linux	*	*

References

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