Quick answers
- Is CVE-1999-0097 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-1999-0097 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-1999-0097?
- Critical severity, with a CVSS score of 10, published 29 October 1997.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- IBM AIX; Sun Microsystems Solaris.
- Is there a fix for CVE-1999-0097?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-1999-0097 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in an operating system.
- Am I affected by CVE-1999-0097?
- Check whether you run IBM Aix. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A command injection vulnerability exists in the FTP client of AIX and Solaris. The issue stems from improper sanitization of filenames or server responses containing shell metacharacters, such as the pipe (|) character. An attacker hosting a malicious FTP server can exploit this by returning crafted strings that the client passes to a shell for execution. This allows for remote code execution (RCE) on the client machine with the privileges of the user running the FTP session. The attack is delivered over the network and requires the victim to connect to the attacker-controlled server.
Affected products
- IBM AIX
- Sun Microsystems Solaris
Timeline
- 1997-10-29: disclosed