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CVE-1999-0797

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1998-06-29 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Sunos: all versions

References

• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-070.shtml
• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-070.shtml

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