Vulnerability Report

CVE-1999-1572

Title: CVE-1999-1572

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-1999-1572.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Jul 16, 1996
Modified Date Apr 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.14%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-1999-1572: 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.

Impacted Vendors

D
debian 1
F
freebsd 1
M
mandrakesoft 1
R
redhat 2
U
ubuntu 1

Reference Links

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/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19167 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10888 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/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19167 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10888
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
2.1
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-1999-1572 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.