VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-1999-1210
CVSS score7.2 NONE
EPSS probability0.33%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published1997-11-12
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
xterm in Digital UNIX 4.0B *with* patch kit 5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a core dump file, which is created when xterm is called with a DISPLAY environmental variable set to a display that xterm cannot access.
Weakness classification
- nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other