Description
Pine 4.x allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands via an index.html file which executes lynx and obtains a uudecoded file from a malicious web server, which is then executed by Pine.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- complete
- Integrity
- complete
- Availability
- complete
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- UNIVERSITY_OF_WASHINGTON
- Published
- 6/28/1999
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
university_of_washington : pineuniversity_of_washington : pineuniversity_of_washington : pineuniversity_of_washington : pine
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