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CVE-1999-0797

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
29/06/1998
Last modified:
03/04/2025

Description

NIS finger allows an attacker to conduct a denial of service via a large number of finger requests, resulting in a large number of NIS queries.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.60 LOW
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
2.60
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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