{"id":"CVE-1999-0786","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-1999-0786","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:33:48.354Z","title":"The dynamic linker in Solaris allows a local user to create arbitrary files via the LD_PROFILE environmental variable and a symlink attack.","description":"The dynamic linker in Solaris allows a local user to create arbitrary files via the LD_PROFILE environmental variable and a symlink attack.","published":"1999-09-22T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T21:49:03.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4.6,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":[],"affected":["sun/solaris","sun/sunos"],"epss":{"score":0.00559,"percentile":0.46297,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"1999-09-22","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":19509,"kind":"exploit","title":"Solaris 2.6 - Profiling File Creation","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19509","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/solaris/local/19509.sh","file":"exploits/solaris/local/19509.sh","published":"1999-09-22","added":"1999-09-22","updated":"2012-07-01","author":"Steve Mynott","type":"local","platform":"solaris","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["CVE-1999-0786","OSVDB-1084"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":"https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/659/info"}]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 0.6%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/659","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/659","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-0786","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}