CVE-1999-1227

medium

Description

Ethereal allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the packet capture file.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/3334

http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/199907/msg00130.html

http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/199907/msg00126.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 1999-07-30

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0005