{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-1999-1434 exists.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-1999-1434 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-1999-1434 is a high-severity vulnerability in Slackware Slackware Linux, published on 12 Sep 2001. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-1999-1434 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-1999-1434 is a high-severity vulnerability in Slackware Slackware Linux, published on 12 Sep 2001. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-1999-1434 exists.\n\nAffected product: Slackware Slackware 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-1999-1434/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1434/index.md)","id":"CVE-1999-1434","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1434/index.md","name":"CVE-1999-1434","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-gf33-x5h5-m638"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Slackware Linux","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local users can gain root privileges on Slackware Linux if the /etc/group file is missing due to improper error handling during login.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"slackware_linux","vendor":"slackware"}],"cvss":{"score":7.2,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[],"description":"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"1998-07-13","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"1998-07-13","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"19122","stars":null,"title":"Slackware Linux 3.5 - '/etc/group' Local Privilege Escalation"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1434","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"slackware:slackware_linux","products":["slackware:slackware_linux"],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"1999"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1435"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1433"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2001-09-12","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Misconfiguration in n/a","id":"CVE-2013-7171","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-11-21"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2013-7172","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-11-21"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Security feature bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2003-0335","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2003-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-0242","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2000-02-04"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-0298","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2000-02-04"},{"cvss_score":7.2,"headline":"Misconfiguration in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1422","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2001-09-12"}],"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)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-01","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local users can gain root privileges on Slackware Linux if the /etc/group file is missing due to improper error handling during login.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1434/"}