CVE-1999-0612
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
1999-09-29 04:00
Modified
2024-08-01 16:41
Severity ?
Summary
A version of finger is running that exposes valid user information to any entity on the network.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-1999-0612
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-1999-0612
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