National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-1999-0627
Orirignal release date: 1992-03-01
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    The rexd service is running, which uses weak authentication that can allow an attacker to execute commands.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 7 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: input,env
    Impact Type: sec_prot user="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    AIX (IBM)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-1999-0627