CVE-1999-1184

Medium

Published: 13/05/1997(UTC)Updated: 16/06/2026(UTC)Translated: 18/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk

0.60%

44th percentile - higher than 44% of all known CVEs

Buffer overflow in Elm 2.4 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a long TERM environmental variable.

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges on the system, posing a significant security risk.

It is recommended to upgrade to a newer version of Elm that is not vulnerable to this issue.

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in Elm 2.4 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a long TERM environmental variable.