Quick answers
- Is CVE-1999-0148 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-1999-0148 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-1999-0148?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.5, published 1 September 1997.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- SGI IRIX.
- Is there a fix for CVE-1999-0148?
- 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-1999-0148 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in an operating system.
- Am I affected by CVE-1999-0148?
- Check whether you run Sgi Irix. 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
The 'handler' CGI script, typically located in the web server's executable directory on SGI IRIX systems, fails to properly sanitize user input. This lack of validation allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands with the privileges of the web server process. The vulnerability is exploitable via a specially crafted HTTP request. SGI released security advisory 19970501-02-PX and associated patches to address this issue by correcting the input handling logic in the CGI program.
Affected products
- SGI IRIX
Timeline
- 1997-05-01: advisory: SGI security advisory 19970501-02-PX released
- 1997-09-01: disclosed: NVD publication date