Vulnerability in HP Hp-Ux
CVE-1999-1139
Character-Terminal User Environment (CUE) in HP-UX 11.0 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the IOERROR.mytty 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: 0.005 (39.8th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 40th percentile — 39.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- www.codetalker.com/advisories/vendor/hp/hpsbux9801-074.html (Vendor Advisory, URL Repurposed, vendor-advisory, Patch)
- www.iss.net/security_center/static/2007.php (vdb-entry)
- security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-199801/0122.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Patch)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-027b.shtml (government-resource, third-party-advisory)