CVE Database · CVE-1999-1434
CVSS v3.1
N/A
EPSS
0.79%
Published
Jul 13, 1998
Modified
Apr 15, 2026
Public PoC / Exploit (1)
All weaponized →Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
Description
login in Slackware Linux 3.2 through 3.5 does not properly check for an error when the /etc/group file is missing, which prevents it from dropping privileges, causing it to assign root privileges to any local user who logs on to the server.
Affected Products (5)
References (4)
