CVE-1999-1037

HIGH 7.2CVE-1999-1037 · Published 26/06/1998 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-1999-1037 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.2) vulnerability affecting satan (coast).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.35%, higher than 28.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
satan coast	`= 1.1.1`	No fix yet

rex.satan in SATAN 1.1.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/rex.$$ file.

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