CVE-1999-1159

MEDIUM 4.6CVE-1999-1159 · Published 29/12/1998 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-1999-1159 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.6) vulnerability affecting ssh2 (ssh).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.34%, higher than 27.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ssh2 ssh	`= 2.0.11`	No fix yet

SSH 2.0.11 and earlier allows local users to request remote forwarding from privileged ports without being root.

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