CVE-1999-1411

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 1998-11-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The installation of the fsp package 2.71-10 in Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 adds the anonymous FTP user without notifying the administrator, which could automatically enable anonymous FTP on some servers such as wu-ftp.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 2.0

References

http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-1998/msg00033.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91228908407679&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91244712808780&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91936850009861&w=2
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7574.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/316
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-1998/msg00033.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91228908407679&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91244712808780&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91936850009861&w=2
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7574.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/316

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