CVE Catalog

CVE-1999-1041

High
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
1.05%

60th percentile - higher than 60% of all known CVEs

Summary

Buffer overflow in mscreen on SCO OpenServer 5.0 and SCO UNIX 3.2v4 allows a local user to gain root access via (1) a long TERM environmental variable and (2) a long entry in the .mscreenrc file.

Risk Assessment

A local user can exploit this vulnerability to gain full system privileges, posing a serious security threat.

Recommendation

It is recommended to restrict access to mscreen and to monitor and limit the length of environment variables and configuration entries.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in mscreen on SCO OpenServer 5.0 and SCO UNIX 3.2v4 allows a local user to gain root access via (1) a long TERM environmental variable and (2) a long entry in the .mscreenrc file.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS