CVE-1999-1585

Published Dec 31, 1999

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description: The (1) rcS and (2) mountall programs in Sun Solaris 2.x, possibly before 2.4, start a privileged shell on the system console if fsck fails while the system is booting, which allows attackers with physical access to gain root privileges.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Analyzed

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:sun:sunos:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "C1370216-93EB-400F-9AA6-CB2DC316DAA7"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References