CVE-1999-1142
SunOS 4.1.2 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via "LD_*" environmental variables to certain dynamically linked setuid or setgid programs such as (1) login, (2) su, or (3) sendmail, that change the real and effective user ids to the same…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.39%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
SunOS 4.1.2 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via "LD_*" environmental variables to certain dynamically linked setuid or setgid programs such as (1) login, (2) su, or (3) sendmail, that change the real and effective user ids to the same user.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 0.39% probability · 32th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- sun/sunos
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/116
- http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1992-11.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/3152
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/116
- http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1992-11.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/3152
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.