CVE-1999-1173: Corel Wordperfect

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Corel Word Perfect 8 for Linux creates a temporary working directory with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to (1) modify Word Perfect behavior by modifying files in the working directory, or (2) modify files of other users via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Corel Wordperfect: version 8 only

Published 1998-12-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.