| GEN:SID | 1:331 |
| Message | FINGER cybercop query |
| Summary | This is an intelligence gathering activity. This event is indicative of an information leak attempt against a finger daemon performed by a vulnerability scanner
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| Impact | The attacker may obtain information about user accounts on the target system.
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| Detailed Information | This event is generated when an attempt to query the finger daemon is attempted by the Cybercop vulnerability scanner.
The Finger daemon is used to provide information about users on a UNIX system. It used to be installed and enabled by default on most UNIX/Linux systems. The scan will confirm that the target host will respond to finger queries.
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| Attack Scenarios | An attacker uses the Cybercop vulnerability scanner to test for this weakness.
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| Ease of Attack | Simple, performed by a scanner
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| Corrective Action | Disable the finger daemon or limit the addresses that can access the service via a firewall or TCP wrappers.
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| Additional References | Arachnids: http://www.whitehats.com/info/IDS132
CVE: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-1999-0612
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| Rule References | arachnids: 132
cve: 1999-0612
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