Vulnerability in SCO Openserver
CVE-1999-1041
Buffer overflow in mscreen on SCO OpenServer 5.0 and SCO UNIX 3.2v4 allows a local user to gain root access via (1) a long TERM environmental variable and (2) a long entry in the .mscreenrc file.
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: 0.011 (63.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 63rd percentile — 63.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- SCO Openserver — versions 5.0
- SCO Unix — versions 3.2v4
References
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.cert.org/vendor_bulletins/VB-98.10.sco.mscreen (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/10420 (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list)