Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-1999-1572

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.

EPSS: 0.006 (43.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-1999-1572?
CVE-1999-1572 is a vulnerability in Freebsd. Published 1996-07-16.
Is CVE-1999-1572 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.