CVE-1999-1048

Medium CVSS 4.6

Published 1998-09-05 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1048, 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

Buffer overflow in bash 2.0.0, 1.4.17, and other versions allows local attackers to gain privileges by creating an extremely large directory name, which is inserted into the password prompt via the \w option in the PS1 environmental variable when another user changes into that directory.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1048

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