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CVE-1999-0612

32
FAUCET Score

CVE-1999-0612 describes a vulnerability in various finger service implementations, including those from GNU and Microsoft, where valid user information is exposed to any network entity. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 0.0 (LOW), indicating no direct impact on confidentiality, integrity, or availability, and requires no authentication or complex attack vectors. Despite its age, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received no community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:finger_service:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:fingerd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

0.0LOW

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
0.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
67.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6744 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 61 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 finger 0.17-4 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 0.17-4
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19246-16820Fixed in: 0.17-4

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft1999-Sep/CVE-1999-0612Low

A version of finger is running that exposes valid user information to any entity on the network.

Sep 2, 1999

References

cve.org / CVERecord