Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-0555

CVSS 10.0 - CRITICAL

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

COMPLETE

Integrity impact

COMPLETE

Availability impact

COMPLETE

network

low complexity

critical

NVD

Published: 1999-01-01

Updated: 2022-08-17

Summary

A Unix account with a name other than "root" has UID 0, i.e. root privileges.

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-1999-0555

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Summary

References

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