CVE-1999-1399

Published Aug 20, 1997

Last updated 8 years ago

Overview

Description: spaceball program in SpaceWare 7.3 v1.0 in IRIX 6.2 allows local users to gain root privileges by setting the HOSTNAME environmental variable to contain the commands to be executed.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.2
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "0ECE564D-B4BB-4C05-88CC-CDC3F8E4E366"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References