Vulnerability in Sun Solaris
CVE-1999-0974
Buffer overflow in Solaris snoop allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via GETQUOTA requests to the rpc.rquotad service.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/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: 0.032 (87.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 87.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.032 · newest: 0.032 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Sun Solaris — versions 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1
- Sun Sunos — versions 5.4, 5.5, 5.5.1
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/864 (vdb-entry)
- sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl (vendor-advisory)