CVE-1999-0787 describes a vulnerability in the SSH authentication agent (ssh) where it insecurely follows symlinks through a UNIX domain socket. This flaw, affecting SSH versions, has a low CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, potentially leading to partial integrity impact but no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, though a public exploit (EDB-19510) exists for SSH 1.2.27, and the CVE has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.2.27CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ssh:ssh:1.2.27:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.