CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1517

7.2 HIGH Published 1999-11-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-11-01
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

runtar in the Amanda backup system used in various UNIX operating systems executes tar with root privileges, which allows a user to overwrite or read arbitrary files by providing the target files to runtar.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 3.3

References