CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0990

Published: Dec 05, 1999 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

2.1 LOW

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-0990
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

Error messages generated by gdm with the VerboseAuth setting allows an attacker to identify valid users on a system.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Gdm	Gnome	2.0_beta4 (including)	2.0_beta4 (including)

References

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