CVE-1999-1027

Summary

CVE-1999-1027 is a vulnerability affecting Solaris 2.6 systems where the HW3/98 installation of admintool is installed with world-writable permissions. This issue grants local users the ability to exploit the vulnerability by replacing the admintool with a malicious program, thereby gaining privileged access. This weakness could potentially lead to serious security consequences, including unauthorized access to sensitive data or system modifications. It is recommended that affected systems be updated to a newer version of Solaris or that the admintool permissions be adjusted to restrict write access to unauthorized users.

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