CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1298

7.5 HIGH Published 1997-04-07 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1997-04-07
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Sysinstall in FreeBSD 2.2.1 and earlier, when configuring anonymous FTP, creates the ftp user without a password and with /bin/date as the shell, which could allow attackers to gain access to certain system resources.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd (<= 2.2.1) • freebsd freebsd 2.1.0 • freebsd freebsd 2.1.5 • freebsd freebsd 2.1.6 • freebsd freebsd 2.1.7 • freebsd freebsd 2.2

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