CVE-1999-1299
HIGH—CVSS v3
10.0CVSS v2
0.48%
EPSS (exploit probability)
—CWE
Description
rcp on various Linux systems including Red Hat 4.0 allows a "nobody" user or other user with UID of 65535 to overwrite arbitrary files, since 65535 is interpreted as -1 by chown and other system calls, which causes the calls to fail to modify the ownership of the file.
Affected routers (0)
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