VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-1999-1517

CVSS score7.2 HIGH
EPSS probability0.47%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published1999-11-01
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV: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.

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