Vulnerability in Cray Unicos
CVE-1999-1468
rdist in various UNIX systems uses popen to execute sendmail, which allows local users to gain root privileges by modifying the IFS (Internal Field Separator) variable.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.2 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (24.7th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 25th percentile — 24.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: -0.000
Affected products
- Cray Unicos — versions 6.0, 6.0e, 6.1
- Next — versions 2.0, 2.1
- Sgi Irix — versions 3.3, 3.3.1, 3.3.2
- Sun Sunos — versions 4.0.3, 4.0.3c, 4.1
References
- www.alw.nih.gov/Security/8lgm/8lgm-Advisory-01.html
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/31 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.osvdb.org/8106 (vdb-entry)
- www.iss.net/security_center/static/7160.php (vdb-entry)
- www.cert.org/advisories/CA-91.20.rdist.vulnerability (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)