CVE-1999-0057 is a high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) affecting the 'vacation' program, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a sendmail command. This unauthenticated attack has low complexity and can lead to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability on systems running products from vendors like Eric Allman, FreeBSD, HP, IBM, and Sun. Despite its age, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eric_allman:vacation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.2:stable:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.00CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:10.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.09CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:10.09:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.