CVE-1999-1229

Low CVSS 2.1

Published 1998-02-25 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1229, 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

Quake 2 server 3.13 on Linux does not properly check file permissions for the config.cfg configuration file, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink from config.cfg to the target file.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1229

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