Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-1999-0820. PoCs published by Shawn Hillis.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a relative pathname vulnerability in Seyon to spawn a shell with elevated privileges (setgid dialer on FreeBSD or root on Irix). The attacker compiles a malicious program named 'seyon-emu' and manipulates the PATH to execute it instead of the legitimate Seyon binary.
Description
FreeBSD seyon allows users to gain privileges via a modified PATH variable for finding the xterm and seyon-emu commands.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a relative pathname vulnerability in Seyon to spawn a shell with elevated privileges (setgid dialer on FreeBSD or root on Irix). The attacker compiles a malicious program named 'seyon-emu' and manipulates the PATH to execute it instead of the legitimate Seyon binary.