CVE-1999-1585

Published: Dec 31, 1999Modified: Apr 16, 2026

7.2

Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 10.0

Source: NVD

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Sun: Sunos

Sun

1 product

Sunos

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Sun Sunos	Version 5.0

References (2)

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-22-00124-1

Source: cve@mitre.org

PatchVendor Advisory

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-22-00124-1

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

PatchVendor Advisory

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