CVE-1999-0491
gnu bash: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The prompt parsing in bash allows a local user to execute commands as another user by creating a directory with the name of the command to execute.
- EPSS
- 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 58% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-94
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:bash
References
- ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/OpenLinux/security/CSSA-1999-008.0.txt
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/119
- http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=Pine.LNX.4.10.9904202114070.6623-100000%40smooth.Operator.org
- ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/OpenLinux/security/CSSA-1999-008.0.txt
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/119