{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-1999-1299 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-1999-1299 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-1999-1299 is a critical vulnerability in Redhat Linux, published on 12 Sep 2001. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-1999-1299 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-1999-1299 is a critical vulnerability in Redhat Linux, published on 12 Sep 2001. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-1999-1299 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Redhat Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1299/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1299/index.md)","id":"CVE-1999-1299","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1299/index.md","name":"CVE-1999-1299","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-h2pr-xxm8-wv36"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation","data_modify"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux rcp utility","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A low-privileged user can overwrite arbitrary files via rcp due to UID 65535 being interpreted as -1, leading to privilege escalation.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"linux","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"slackware_linux","vendor":"slackware"}],"cvss":{"score":10,"severity":"critical","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[],"description":"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1299","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"redhat:linux","products":["redhat:linux","slackware:slackware_linux"],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"1999"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1300"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Misconfiguration in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1298"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2001-09-12","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2000-1220","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2005-04-21"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2003-0248","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2003-06-05"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Command injection in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1542","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2002-03-09"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Command injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2000-0322","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2000-10-13"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Hardcoded credentials in n/a","id":"CVE-2000-0248","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2000-04-26"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Weak cryptography in n/a","id":"CVE-2000-0093","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2000-02-08"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-01","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"A low-privileged user can overwrite arbitrary files via rcp due to UID 65535 being interpreted as -1, leading to privilege escalation.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1299/"}