CVE-1999-0879 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in WU-FTPD and related FTP servers, impacting products like BSDI BSD/OS and Caldera OpenLinux. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to achieve root privileges by injecting malicious macro variables into a message file. With a CVSS score of 10.0 (HIGH), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not currently on the KEV or Hot List, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:bsdi:bsd_os:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:bsdi:bsd_os:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:caldera:openlinux:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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