CVE Catalog

CVE-1999-1313

Medium
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.33%

24th percentile - higher than 24% of all known CVEs

Summary

The manual page reader (man) in FreeBSD 2.2 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a sequence of commands.

Risk Assessment

Local users may exploit this vulnerability to gain unauthorized privileges, potentially leading to serious security breaches.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade the system to a newer version of FreeBSD to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Manual page reader (man) in FreeBSD 2.2 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a sequence of commands.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS