VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-1999-1585

CVSS score7.2 HIGH
EPSS probability0.35%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published1999-12-31
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The (1) rcS and (2) mountall programs in Sun Solaris 2.x, possibly before 2.4, start a privileged shell on the system console if fsck fails while the system is booting, which allows attackers with physical access to gain root privileges.

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