| Vulnerability Name: | CVE-1999-0491 (CCN-3531) | ||||||||
| Assigned: | 1999-04-20 | ||||||||
| Published: | 1999-04-20 | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2014-12-31 | ||||||||
| Summary: | The prompt parsing in bash allows a local user to execute commands as another user by creating a directory with the name of the command to execute. | ||||||||
| CVSS v3 Severity: | 5.9 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
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| CVSS v2 Severity: | 4.6 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
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| Vulnerability Type: | CWE-94 | ||||||||
| Vulnerability Consequences: | Gain Access | ||||||||
| References: | Source: CCN Type: Caldera International, Inc. Security Advisory CSSA-1999-008.0 bash Source: CALDERA Type: Patch, Vendor Advisory CSSA-1999-008.0 Source: CCN Type: GNU FTP site Bash Software Download Source: CCN Type: BugTraq Mailing List, Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:03:00 -0500 tee see shell problems Source: CCN Type: BugTraq Mailing List, Thu, 19 Sep 1996 20:52:26 +0200 Vulnerability in expansion of PS1 in bash & tcsh Source: CCN Type: BugTraq Mailing List, Tue, 20 Apr 1999 21:25:47 -0400 Bash Bug Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-1999-0491 Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-1999-1383 Source: CCN Type: OSVDB ID: 8225 Multiple Shell PS1 Variable Arbitrary Command Execution Source: CCN Type: OSVDB ID: 907 bash Prompt Parsing Malformed Directory Command Execution Source: BID Type: UNKNOWN 119 Source: CCN Type: BID-119 Bash Path Embedded Code Execution Vulnerability Source: BUGTRAQ Type: UNKNOWN 19990420 Bash Bug Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN bash-prompt-pars-dir(3531) | ||||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Configuration CCN 1:  Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||
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