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CVE-1999-1355
BMC Patrol component, when installed with Compaq Insight Management Agent 4.23 and earlier, or Management Agents for Servers 4.40 and…
High7.5EPSS 1.5%
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 26% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/management/advisory.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 19990817 Compaq PFCUser account (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQx_transferred
- 19990915 (I) UPDATE - PFCUser Account, (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQx_transferred
- management-pfcuser(3231) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 19991105 UPDATE: SSRT0620 Compaq Foundation Agents v4.40B PFCUser issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQx_transferred
- 19990905 Case ID SSRT0620 - PFCUser account communication (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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