CVE-1999-1572

Low CVSS 2.1

Published 1996-07-16 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1572, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

cpio on FreeBSD 2.1.0, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, and possibly other operating systems, uses a 0 umask when creating files using the -O (archive) or -F options, which creates the files with mode 0666 and allows local users to read or overwrite those files.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1572

CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N