CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1139

7.2 HIGH Published 1997-09-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1997-09-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Character-Terminal User Environment (CUE) in HP-UX 11.0 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the IOERROR.mytty file.

Affected configurations

• hp hp-ux (<= 11.00)

References