CVE-1999-1545 describes a vulnerability in Joe's Own Editor (joe) version 2.8, where its crash-save file, DEADJOE, is created with world-readable permissions. This allows local users to potentially access sensitive information from files being edited by other users. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating local access, low attack complexity, no authentication required, and a potential impact of information disclosure. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:joes_own_editor:joe:2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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