Data General DG-UX Fingerd Metacharacter privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Data General DG-UX. It has been declared as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Fingerd. Such manipulation as part of Metacharacter leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-1999-0152. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to implement a patch to correct this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Data General DG-UX (version now known) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Fingerd. The manipulation as part of a Metacharacter leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

the dg/ux finger daemon allows remote command execution through shell metacharacters.

The weakness was shared 08/11/1997. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-1999-0152. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10126 (in.fingerd Pipe Input Arbitrary Command Execution), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Misc. and running in the context r. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 31013 (DG/UX in.fingerd Remote Command Execution Vulnerability).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 327.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (302), Tenable (10126) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-217†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 10126
Nessus Name: in.fingerd Pipe Input Arbitrary Command Execution
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Patch
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Snort ID: 327
Snort Message: PROTOCOL-FINGER remote command pipe execution attempt
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Suricata ID: 2100327
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06/22/1999 +680 days 🔍
11/25/2002 +1252 days 🔍
06/18/2014 +4223 days 🔍
10/26/2025 +4148 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-1999-0152 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-1999-0152
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-13964
X-Force: 302
Vulnerability Center: 217 - DG/UX Finger Command Execution, High

Entryinfo

Created: 06/18/2014 15:58
Updated: 10/26/2025 22:00
Changes: 06/18/2014 15:58 (66), 05/05/2019 16:25 (1), 10/26/2025 22:00 (20)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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