Vulnerability Report

CVE-1999-1095

Title: CVE-1999-1095

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-1999-1095.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Oct 06, 1997
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.35%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-1999-1095: sort creates temporary files and follows symbolic links, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files that are writable by the user running sort, as observed in updatedb and other programs that use sort.

Impacted Vendors

S
sun 1
S
slackware 1
R
redhat 1
C
cyrix 1
C
conectiva 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87619953510834&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=88886870129518&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=88890116304676&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87619953510834&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=88886870129518&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=88890116304676&w=2
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.2
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-1999-1095 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.