CVE-1999-0491

Medium CVSS 4.6

Published 1999-04-20 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-0491, 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

The prompt parsing in bash allows a local user to execute commands as another user by creating a directory with the name of the command to execute.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-0491

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