CVE Catalog

CVE-1999-1184

Medium
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.60%

44th percentile - higher than 44% of all known CVEs

Summary

Buffer overflow in Elm 2.4 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a long TERM environmental variable.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges on the system, posing a significant security risk.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade to a newer version of Elm that is not vulnerable to this issue.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in Elm 2.4 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a long TERM environmental variable.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS