VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-1999-1091
CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.28%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2002-01-15
Last modified2026-09-25
CVSS vectorAV: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.