Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-1999-0442. PoCs published by John McDonald.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a vulnerability in Solaris's ff.core utility to perform a local privilege escalation by renaming critical system binaries and abusing symlinks. It replaces /usr/bin/admintool and /usr/sbin/in.rlogind with malicious binaries to gain root access via telnet.
Description
Solaris ff.core allows local users to modify files.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a vulnerability in Solaris's ff.core utility to perform a local privilege escalation by renaming critical system binaries and abusing symlinks. It replaces /usr/bin/admintool and /usr/sbin/in.rlogind with malicious binaries to gain root access via telnet.