CVE-1999-1572 — LOW severity vulnerability (cpio on FreeBSD 2.1.0, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, and possibly ot)
cpio on FreeBSD 2.1.0, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, and possibly other operating systems, uses a 0 umask when creating files using the -O (archive) or -F options, which creates the files with mode 0666 and allows local users to read or overwrite those files.
| CVE ID | CVE-1999-1572 |
|---|---|
| Severity | LOW |
| CVSS score | 2.1 |
| CVSS vector | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| CWE | NVD-CWE-Other |
| Status | Modified |
| Published | 1996-07-16 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-16 |
| Description | cpio on FreeBSD 2.1.0, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, and possibly other operating systems, uses a 0 umask when creating files using the -O (archive) or -F options, which creates the files with mode 0666 and allows local users to read or overwrite those files. |
| Source | NIST National Vulnerability Database |
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