CVE-1999-0120

CVSS 2.0 Score 7.2 of 10 (high)

Details

Published Mar 21, 1994
Updated: Nov 20, 2024

Summary

CVE-1999-0120 is a vulnerability affecting Sun/Solaris systems. The issue lies in the writable utmp file, which is not intended to be accessible to users other than the root. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain root access by writing malicious code to the file. This vulnerability poses a significant risk to system security and requires administrators to restrict access to the utmp file to the root user only.

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