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CVE-1999-1572

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1996-07-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

cpio on FreeBSD 2.1.0, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, and possibly other operating systems, uses a 0 umask when creating files using the -O (archive) or -F options, which creates the files with mode 0666 and allows local users to read or overwrite those files.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 3.0
• FreeBSD: 2.1.0
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, cs2.1, cs3.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 4.0
• Ubuntu Linux: 4.10

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110763404701519&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14357
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17063
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17532
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-212.pdf
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-664
• http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/1391
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:032
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-073.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-080.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-806.html
• http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0003/

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