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CVE-1999-1394

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FAUCET Score

CVE-1999-1394 describes a vulnerability in BSD 4.4 based operating systems running at security level 1, where a local root user can bypass file immutability by unmounting the filesystem and directly modifying files via a filesystem editor. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a partial impact on integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, but an ExploitDB entry (EDB-19411) exists, and it has received no community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:bsd:bsd:4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
45.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-19411 · Jul 2, 1999
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0061 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

marc.info
securityfocus.com / bid/510