CVE-1999-1091
Published Jan 15, 2002
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- Description
- UNIX news readers tin and rtin create the /tmp/.tin_log file with insecure permissions and follow symlinks, which allows attackers to modify the permissions of files writable by the user via a symlink attack.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 10
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Configurations
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{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:rtin:rtin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "5F5E9FF4-CC02-40FA-BD08-09EB66D86EF7"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:tin:tin:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "49D9C4D6-C222-42B4-977D-7E81192744FC"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]