CVE-1999-1496

Low CVSS 2.1

Published 1999-06-08 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1496, 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

Sudo 1.5 in Debian Linux 2.1 and Red Hat 6.0 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files by attempting to execute the target filename as a program, which generates a different error message when the file does not exist.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1496

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