CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1091

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2002-01-15 Modified 2026-09-25 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-01-15
Last modified
2026-09-25
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

UNIX news readers tin and rtin create the /tmp/.tin_log file with insecure permissions and follow symlinks, which allows attackers to modify the permissions of files writable by the user via a symlink attack.

Affected configurations

• rtin rtin • tin tin 1.2

References