Quick answers
- Is CVE-1999-1302 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-1999-1302 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-1999-1302?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.2, published 30 November 1994.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Sco Unix 4.2 and earlier.
- Is there a fix for CVE-1999-1302?
- 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-1999-1302 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in an operating system.
- Am I affected by CVE-1999-1302?
- Check whether you run Sco Unix at an affected version. 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 pt_chmod executable within SCO UNIX versions 4.2 and earlier. pt_chmod is a utility typically used to set the permissions of a pseudo-terminal slave device. While the specific root cause is not detailed in the advisory, the flaw is categorized as a local privilege escalation. An attacker with local shell access can exploit this vulnerability to bypass authorization checks and execute commands with root-level privileges. This is a legacy vulnerability originally disclosed in 1994.
Affected products
- SCO UNIX 4.2 and earlier
Timeline
- 1994-11-30: disclosed: Initial public disclosure
- 1994-11-30: advisory: NVD publication date