{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-1999-1498 exists.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-1999-1498 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-1999-1498 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Slackware Slackware Linux, published on 12 Sep 2001. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-1999-1498 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-1999-1498 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Slackware Slackware Linux, published on 12 Sep 2001. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-1999-1498 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-1999-1498/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1498/index.md)","id":"CVE-1999-1498","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1498/index.md","name":"CVE-1999-1498","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-r9wh-3q4r-xc56"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read","data_modify"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Slackware Linux","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can read and write arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the pkgtool reply file in Slackware Linux.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"slackware_linux","vendor":"slackware"}],"cvss":{"score":3.6,"severity":"low","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[],"description":"Slackware Linux 3.4 pkgtool allows local attacker to read and write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the reply file.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"1998-04-06","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"1998-04-06","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"19074","stars":null,"title":"Slackware Linux 3.4 - 'pkgtool' Temporary File"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1498","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"slackware:slackware_linux","products":["slackware:slackware_linux"],"type":"path_traversal","year":"1999"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1499"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Weak cryptography in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1497"},"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"},{"cvss_score":7.2,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1434","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 attackers can read and write arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the pkgtool reply file in Slackware Linux.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1498/"}