Akfingerd is a finger daemon utility that serves a narrowly scoped but historically relevant network service, with its vulnerability footprint centered on the single product itself. The durable signal centers on concurrency-related weaknesses, particularly race conditions in shared-resource handling, which are characteristic of network services managing simultaneous client connections. Current severity, exploitation activity, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Akfingerd over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (3 CVEs).
3 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2002-2243MEDIUM Akfingerd 0.5 and possibly earlier versions only allows one connection at a time and does not time out connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (refu | Dec 31, 2002 | 5.0 | 15 | NO | NO |
akfingerd 0.5 allows local users to read arbitrary files as the akfingerd user (nobody) via a symlink attack on the .plan file. | Dec 31, 2002 | 2.1 | 14 | NO | NO |
Akfingerd 0.5 and earlier versions allow local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a .plan with a symlink to /dev/urandom or other device, then disconnecting while data | Dec 31, 2002 | 2.1 | 11 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (3 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Akfingerd.
Media articles that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Akfingerd — matched by CVE ID, not by vendor name.