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.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_sun
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-22-00124-1
Scores
EPSS
0.0005
EPSS Percentile
16.3%
Details
Status
published
Products (1)
sun/sunos
5.0
Published
Dec 31, 1999
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026