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CVE-1999-1091

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-01-15 · updated 2026-09-25

Description

UNIX news readers tin and rtin create the /tmp/.tin_log file with insecure permissions and follow symlinks, which allows attackers to modify the permissions of files writable by the user via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Rtin: all versions
• Tin: 1.2

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167419835&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167419839&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167420726&w=2
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/431
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167419835&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167419839&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167420726&w=2
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/431

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