CVE-1999-0017

N/A

Published: September 29, 1999 at 04:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:47 PM UTC

11 products affected across 9 vendorsAIXFreeBSDSunos

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 2%

Description

FTP servers can allow an attacker to connect to arbitrary ports on machines other than the FTP client, aka FTP bounce.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Openlinux · Caldera

95%

1.2

FreeBSD · Freebsd

95%

1.0 1.1 1.2 2.0 2.1.0 2.1.7

95%

95%

95%

95%

95%

95%

Reliant Unix · Siemens

95%

All versions

Sunos · Sun

95%

4.1.3u1 4.1.4 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.5.1

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

x_refsource_MISC

Source: [email protected]

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0017

CVSS

7.5HIGH[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

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StatusMODIFIED

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

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