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CVE-1999-1187

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1996-08-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Pine before version 3.94 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a lockfile that is created when a user receives new mail.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 2.1.0
• Slackware Linux: 3.0
• University Of Washington Pine: through 3.94

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167419803&w=2
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/416
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167419803&w=2
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/416

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