Vulnerability in Redhat Linux

CVE-1999-1491

abuse.console in Red Hat 2.1 uses relative pathnames to find and execute the undrv program, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a path that points to a Trojan horse program.

EPSS: 0.019 (77.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Redhat Linux — versions 2.1
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)