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CVE-1999-0628

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1997-07-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The rwho/rwhod service is running, which exposes machine status and user information.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 6.2-stable
• IBM AIX: 4.2
• Linux kernel: 2.6.20.1
• Netbsd: 2.0.4

References

• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0628
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0628

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