National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-1999-0612
Orirignal release date: 1997-03-01
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    A version of finger is running that exposes valid user information to any entity on the network.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 3.3 (Low)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: config
    Impact Type: conf

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Finger Service (GNU)
    Windows 2000 (Microsoft)
    fingerd (GNU)
    Windows NT (Microsoft)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-1999-0612