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CVE-1999-0234

CVSS 4.6 · MEDIUM

Summary

Bash treats any character with a value of 255 as a command separator.

CVSS 2.0 breakdown

Base score4.6 (MEDIUM)
VectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Attack vectorLOCAL
Attack complexityLOW
ConfidentialityPARTIAL
IntegrityPARTIAL
AvailabilityPARTIAL

Affected products

Yggdrasil linuxSgi irixCaldera openlinuxRedhat linuxSuse suse linux
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References

Data: NIST NVD. NVD last modified 2026-04-16. Always verify against the vendor advisory before acting.

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