CVE-1999-1434
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 0.8%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDSep 12
1st PoCJul 13
exploitation probability
0.8%top 47% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
login in Slackware Linux 3.2 through 3.5 does not properly check for an error when the /etc/group file is missing, which prevents it from dropping privileges, causing it to assign root privileges to any local user who logs on to the server.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
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