CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0813

Published: Aug 10, 1999 | Modified: Aug 17, 2022

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-1999-0813
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

Cfingerd with ALLOW_EXECUTION enabled does not properly drop privileges when it executes a program on behalf of the user, allowing local users to gain root privileges.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Cfingerd	Infodrom	*	1.4.0 (including)

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0813

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