CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1490

7.2 HIGH Published 1998-05-28 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1998-05-28
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

xosview 1.5.1 in Red Hat 5.1 allows local users to gain root access via a long HOME environmental variable.

Affected configurations

• redhat linux 5.1

References