CVE-1999-1422 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Slackware 3.4 and potentially other versions. The default configuration includes the current directory (.) in the PATH environment variable, allowing local users to create malicious programs that could be inadvertently executed by other users. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), indicating that an attacker with local access could achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.0.35CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:2.0.35:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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