CVE-1999-1411 Misconfiguration in n/a

What is CVE-1999-1411?

CVE-1999-1411 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 9 Mar 2002. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The installation of the fsp package 2.71-10 in Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 adds the anonymous FTP user without notifying the administrator, which could automatically enable anonymous FTP on some servers such as wu-ftp.

Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-1411?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Debian Debian Linux.

How do I fix CVE-1999-1411?

No fix has been published for CVE-1999-1411 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-1999-1411 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-1999-1411 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-hj3p-73jp-r547.