Vulnerability in Sgi Irix

CVE-1999-1022

serial_ports administrative program in IRIX 4.x and 5.x trusts the user's PATH environmental variable to find and execute the ls program, which allows local users to gain root privileges via a Trojan horse ls program.

EPSS: 0.008 (52.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Sgi Irix — versions 4, 5.2, 5.3
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)