ffingerd 1.19 information disclosure

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A vulnerability has been found in ffingerd 1.19 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Performing a manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-1999-0492. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in ffingerd 1.19. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

The ffingerd 1.19 allows remote attackers to identify users on the target system based on its responses.

The weakness was shared 04/23/1999. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-1999-0492. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (20327). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• ffingerd

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• 1.19

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