{"id":"CVE-1999-0803","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-1999-0803","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:30:09.375Z","title":"The fwluser script in AIX eNetwork Firewall allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.","description":"The fwluser script in AIX eNetwork Firewall allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.","published":"1999-05-25T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T21:49:05.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":2.1,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":["ibm/aix enetwork firewall"],"epss":{"score":0.00537,"percentile":0.45015,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"1999-05-25","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":19229,"kind":"exploit","title":"IBM AIX eNetwork Firewall 3.2/3.3 - Insecure Temporary File Creation","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19229","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/aix/local/19229.txt","file":"exploits/aix/local/19229.txt","published":"1999-05-25","added":"1999-05-25","updated":"2012-06-16","author":"Paul Cammidge","type":"local","platform":"aix","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["CVE-1999-0803","OSVDB-962"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":null}]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is low and EPSS is 0.5%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=92765973207648&w=2","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/962","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=92765973207648&w=2","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/962","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-0803","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}