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CVE-1999-1496 — LOW severity vulnerability (Sudo 1.5 in Debian Linux 2.1 and Red Hat 6.0 allows local us)

Sudo 1.5 in Debian Linux 2.1 and Red Hat 6.0 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files by attempting to execute the target filename as a program, which generates a different error message when the file does not exist.

CVE IDCVE-1999-1496
SeverityLOW
CVSS score2.1
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CWENVD-CWE-Other
StatusModified
Published1999-06-08
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionSudo 1.5 in Debian Linux 2.1 and Red Hat 6.0 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files by attempting to execute the target filename as a program, which generates a different error message when the file does not exist.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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