CVE-1999-1517

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 1999-11-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

runtar in the Amanda backup system used in various UNIX operating systems executes tar with root privileges, which allows a user to overwrite or read arbitrary files by providing the target files to runtar.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 3.3

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=94148942818975&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/750
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=94148942818975&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/750

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