Quick answers
- Is CVE-1999-1122 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-1999-1122 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-1999-1122?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 4.6, published 26 July 1989.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Sun Microsystems SunOS 4.0.3 and earlier.
- Is there a fix for CVE-1999-1122?
- 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-1999-1122 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in an operating system.
- Am I affected by CVE-1999-1122?
- Check whether anything you run is named in the advisory. 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 vulnerability exists in the 'restore' command in SunOS versions 4.0.3 and earlier. The 'restore' utility, which is typically used for file system recovery, contains a flaw that allows a local attacker with standard user access to execute commands or manipulate files with higher privileges. This is likely due to improper handling of setuid permissions or environment variables during execution. An attacker can exploit this to gain root access on the local system. Patches were historically issued by Sun Microsystems to address this issue.
Affected products
- Sun Microsystems SunOS 4.0.3 and earlier
Timeline
- 1989-07-26: advisory: NVD published date
- 1989-07-26: disclosed: Initial disclosure via CERT CA-1989-02