CVE-1999-1462

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-1999-1462 · Published 31/12/1999 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-1999-1462 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting big brother (bb4).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.2%, higher than 82.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
big brother bb4	`= 1.09b= 1.09c`	No fix yet

Vulnerability in bb-hist.sh CGI History module in Big Brother 1.09b and 1.09c allows remote attackers to read portions of arbitrary files.

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