CVE-1999-1299

highpriority · track · 41EPSS 0.018 · 79 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
1.84% (79th) EPSS
CVSS 10 · high
Is it mine?
3 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
2 sources
enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

rcp on various Linux systems including Red Hat 4.0 allows a "nobody" user or other user with UID of 65535 to overwrite arbitrary files, since 65535 is interpreted as -1 by chown and other system calls, which causes the calls to fail to modify the ownership of the file.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10
v2.08.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-269USLLM-inferredCWE-284USLLM-inferred
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affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

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also known as (2)

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sources

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enisa_euvdnvdNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 1997-02-03modified 2026-06-16
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references (2)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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