CVE Catalog

CVE-1999-1384

High
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
1.62%

73th percentile - higher than 73% of all known CVEs

Summary

Indigo Magic System Tour in the SGI system tour package (systour) for IRIX 5.x through 6.3 allows local users to gain root privileges via a Trojan horse .exitops program, which is called by the inst command that is executed by the RemoveSystemTour program.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability allows local users to gain full administrative privileges, potentially leading to serious security breaches in the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to remove or update the vulnerable package and monitor the system for unauthorized activities.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Indigo Magic System Tour in the SGI system tour package (systour) for IRIX 5.x through 6.3 allows local users to gain root privileges via a Trojan horse .exitops program, which is called by the inst command that is executed by the RemoveSystemTour program.

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