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Finger Service Unused Account Disclosure Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Critical
Family
Family
Finger abuses
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
10.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Solution Type
Solution Type
Workaround
Created
Created
12 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
This host is running Finger service and is prone to information disclosure vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw exists due to finger service display a list of unused accounts for a 'finger 0@host' request.
Affected Software
Affected Software
GNU Finger.
Solution
Solution
Disable finger service, or install a finger service or daemon that limits the type of information provided.