CVE-1999-1091
N/A
Published: September 12, 2001 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: September 25, 2026 at 08:27 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsTinRtin
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (4)
Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167419835&w=2Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167419839&w=2Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167420726&w=2VDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/431Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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