CVE-1999-0527

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The permissions for system-critical data in an anonymous FTP account are inappropriate. For example, the root directory is writeable by world, a real password file is obtainable, or executable commands such as "ls" can be overwritten.

Published 1999-01-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.