CVE-1999-1022 - serial_ports administrative program in IRIX 4.x and 5.x trusts the user's PATH environmental variable to find and execute the ls program, which allows local users to gain root privileges via a Trojan horse ls program

serial_ports administrative program in IRIX 4.x and 5.x trusts the user's PATH environmental variable to find and execute the ls program, which allows local users to gain root privileges via a Trojan horse ls program

Published Sep 12, 2001

No CVSS score

EPSS 0.79%

Description

serial_ports administrative program in IRIX 4.x and 5.x trusts the user's PATH environmental variable to find and execute the ls program, which allows local users to gain root privileges via a Trojan horse ls program.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/930
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/464
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/2111
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/930		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/464		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/2111		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 12, 2001

Updated Aug 1, 2024

Reserved Aug 31, 2001

Link CVE-1999-1022

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-1999-1022

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-1999-1022