CVE-1999-0114

Medium CVSS 4.6

Published 1998-01-01 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-0114, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

Local users can execute commands as other users, and read other users' files, through the filter command in the Elm elm-2.4 mail package using a symlink attack.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-0114

CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P