CVE-1999-1313

Medium

Published: 23/05/1996(UTC)Updated: 16/06/2026(UTC)Translated: 18/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk

0.33%

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

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

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

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

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.