CVE-1999-1431 (GCVE-0-1999-1431)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2001-09-12 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 17:11
VLAI
Summary
ZAK in Appstation mode allows users to bypass the "Run only allowed apps" policy by starting Explorer from Office 97 applications (such as Word), installing software into the TEMP directory, and changing the name to that for an allowed application, such as Winword.exe.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2263 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=91576100022688&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQ
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=91606260910008&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQ
Date Public
1999-01-07 00:00
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