Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.55% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006228
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Jan 1999
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Jan 1999

CVE-1999-0656  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-16  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for torvalds/linux.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). The ugidd RPC interface, by design, allows remote attackers to enumerate valid usernames by specifying arbitrary UIDs that ugidd maps to local user and group names.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1