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CVE-1999-1298

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1997-04-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Sysinstall in FreeBSD 2.2.1 and earlier, when configuring anonymous FTP, creates the ftp user without a password and with /bin/date as the shell, which could allow attackers to gain access to certain system resources.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: through 2.2.1; 2.1.0, 2.1.5, 2.1.6, 2.1.7, 2.2

References

• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7537.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/6087
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7537.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/6087

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