CVE-1999-1313: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Manual page reader (man) in FreeBSD 2.2 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a sequence of commands.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: up to and including 2.2; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.5 only; version 2.1.0 only

Published 1996-05-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.