Quick answers
- Is CVE-1999-1211 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-1999-1211 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-1999-1211?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.2, published 27 March 1991.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Sun Microsystems SunOS 4.1.1 and earlier.
- Is there a fix for CVE-1999-1211?
- 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-1999-1211 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in an operating system.
- Am I affected by CVE-1999-1211?
- Check whether you run Sunos. 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 in.telnetd daemon on SunOS 4.1.1 and earlier. The flaw allows a local attacker with authenticated access to the system to exploit the Telnet service to escalate their privileges to root. While the specific technical root cause (such as a buffer overflow or environment variable manipulation) is not detailed in the summary, the impact is a complete compromise of the host's integrity, confidentiality, and availability. This is a legacy vulnerability originally disclosed in 1991. Patches were historically made available by the vendor.
Affected products
- Sun Microsystems SunOS 4.1.1 and earlier
Timeline
- 1991-03-27: advisory: NVD published date
- 1991-03-27: disclosed: Original CERT advisory date