Finger .@host Unused Account Disclosure

medium Nessus Plugin ID 10072

Synopsis

The finger service running on the remote host has an information disclosure vulnerability.

Description

It is possible to force the remote finger daemon to display a list of accounts that have never been used by issuing the request :

finger .@target

A remote attacker could use this information to guess which operating system is running or mount further attacks against these accounts.

Solution

Disable or filter access to the finger daemon.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 10072

File Name: finger_dot.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: remote

Family: Misc.

Published: 6/22/1999

Updated: 8/10/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploited by Nessus: true

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/1/1995

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-1999-0198

Detections

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