CVE-1999-1402

Solaris/SunOS <4.4 - Local Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The access permissions for a UNIX domain socket are ignored in Solaris 2.x and SunOS 4.x, and other BSD-based operating systems before 4.4, which could allow local users to connect to the socket and possibly disrupt or control the operations of the program using that socket.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Thamer Al-Herbish · clocalfreebsd
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19346

Scores

EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 50.3%

Details

Status published
Products (16)
freebsd/freebsd 2.2.2
freebsd/freebsd 2.2.3
freebsd/freebsd 2.2.4
freebsd/freebsd 2.2.5
freebsd/freebsd 2.2.6
freebsd/freebsd 2.2.8
freebsd/freebsd 3.0
freebsd/freebsd 3.1
sun/solaris 2.5
sun/solaris 2.5.1 (2 CPE variants)
... and 6 more
Published May 17, 1997
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026