CVE Catalog

CVE-1999-1399

High
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.89%

54th percentile - higher than 54% of all known CVEs

Summary

The spaceball program in SpaceWare 7.3 v1.0 on IRIX 6.2 allows local users to gain root privileges by setting the HOSTNAME environmental variable to contain commands to be executed.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability allows local users to execute arbitrary commands with administrator privileges, potentially leading to serious security breaches.

Recommendation

It is recommended to restrict access to the HOSTNAME variable and update the software to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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