CVE detail

CVE-1999-1490 — CVE-1999-1490

Published 1998-05-28 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor redhat · Product linux · Source nvd

UNKNOWN

severity

CVSS-derived band

n/a

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0093

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

57.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

xosview 1.5.1 in Red Hat 5.1 allows local users to gain root access via a long HOME environmental variable.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

NVD entry ↗
CVE.org record ↗

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