CVE-1999-1298: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Sysinstall in FreeBSD 2.2.1 and earlier, when configuring anonymous FTP, creates the ftp user without a password and with /bin/date as the shell, which could allow attackers to gain access to certain system resources.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: up to and including 2.2.1; version 2.1.0 only; version 2.1.5 only; version 2.1.6 only; version 2.1.7 only; version 2.2 only

Published 1997-04-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.