CVE-1999-1585

Sun Solaris 2.x - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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