Vulnerability in Id Software Quake 2 Server
CVE-1999-1229
Quake 2 server 3.13 on Linux does not properly check file permissions for the config.cfg configuration file, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink from config.cfg to the target file.
EPSS: 0.005 (38.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Id_software Quake_2_server
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)