CVE-1999-0813
CVSS 2.0 Score 7.2 of 10 (high)
Details
Published Aug 10, 1999
Updated: Nov 20, 2024
Summary
CVE-1999-0813 is a vulnerability affecting the CFingerd daemon with ALLOW_EXECUTION enabled. When the daemon executes a program on behalf of a user, it fails to drop privileges appropriately, enabling local users to elevate their privileges to root level access. This issue poses a significant security risk, allowing attackers to gain unauthorized root access to the system. It is recommended that system administrators disable the ALLOW_EXECUTION option in CFingerd to mitigate this vulnerability.
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