CVE-1999-1037: Coast Satan

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

rex.satan in SATAN 1.1.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/rex.$$ file.

Affected products

• Coast Satan: version 1.1.1 only

Published 1998-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.