Vulnerability in Apple A Ux
CVE-1999-0138
The suidperl and sperl program do not give up root privileges when changing UIDs back to the original users, allowing root access.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.007 (51.1th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 51st percentile — 51.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: -0.000
Affected products
- Apple A Ux — versions 3.1.1
- Digital Osf 1 — versions 1.3
- FreeBSD — versions 2.0, 2.0.5, 2.1.0
- HP Hp-Ux — versions 8, 9, 10
- IBM Aix — versions 3.2.5, 4
- Linux Kernel — versions 1.2.0, 2.0
- Nec Asl Ux 4800
- Nec Ews-Ux V — versions 4.2, 4.2mp
- Nec Up-Ux V — versions 4.2mp