CVE-1999-1355 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

BMC Patrol component, when installed with Compaq Insight Management Agent 4.23 and earlier, or Management Agents for Servers 4.40 and earlier, creates a PFCUser account with a default password and potentially dangerous privileges.

Published: 2001-09-12

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:compaq:insight_management_agent::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:compaq:management_agents_for_servers::::::::

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-1999-1336	BMC Patrol component, when installed with Compaq Insight Management Agent 4.23 and earlier, or Management Agents for Servers 4.40 and earlier, creates a PFCUser account with a default password and potentially dangerous privileges.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00743.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=93542118727732&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=93654336516711&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=93759822430801&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=94183795025294&w=2
http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/management/advisory.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/3231

History

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Subscriptions

Compaq Insight Management Agent Management Agents For Servers

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-09-12T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:11:03.156Z

Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-1999-1355

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 1999-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-1999-1355

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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