Host Daytime Service privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Host. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Daytime Service. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-1999-0638. Moreover, an exploit is present. Modifying the configuration settings is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Host (the affected version unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Daytime Service. The manipulation with an unknown input 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 daytime service is running.

The weakness was disclosed 01/01/1999. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-1999-0638. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

It is declared as highly functional.

It is possible to mitigate the problem by applying the configuration setting .

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (400) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-4939†). The entries VDB-14406, VDB-14405, VDB-14404 and VDB-14403 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.8

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.8
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Config
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Timelineinfo

01/01/1999 🔍
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08/03/2004 +2041 days 🔍
06/19/2014 +3607 days 🔍
04/18/2026 +4321 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-1999-0638 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-1999-0638
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-14402
X-Force: 400
Vulnerability Center: 4939 - TCP Echo, Chargen and Other Network Services Running, Info

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 06/20/2014 01:33
Updated: 04/18/2026 02:56
Changes: 06/20/2014 01:33 (37), 05/23/2019 17:21 (15), 04/18/2026 02:56 (20)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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