CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1173

2.1 LOW Published 1998-12-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1998-12-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

Corel Word Perfect 8 for Linux creates a temporary working directory with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to (1) modify Word Perfect behavior by modifying files in the working directory, or (2) modify files of other users via a symlink attack.

Affected configurations

• corel wordperfect 8

References