What is CVE-1999-0783?

CVE-1999-0783 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freebsd, classified under Improper Link Resolution Before File Access. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 1998-06-16.

How severe is CVE-1999-0783?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-1999-0783

FreeBSD allows local users to conduct a denial of service by creating a hard link from a device special file to a file on an NFS file system.

EPSS: 0.008 (51.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Freebsd — versions 2.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-59 — Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

cve@mitre.org (government-resource, Broken Link, third-party-advisory, x_refsource_CIAC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry, Broken Link)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-1999-0783?: CVE-1999-0783 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freebsd, classified under Improper Link Resolution Before File Access. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 1998-06-16.
How severe is CVE-1999-0783?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.