CVE-1999-1227: Ethereal Group Ethereal

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

Ethereal allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the packet capture file.

Affected products

• Ethereal Group Ethereal: any version

Published 1999-07-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.