CVE-1999-1587 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

/usr/ucb/ps in Sun Microsystems Solaris 8 and 9, and certain earlier releases, allows local users to view the environment variables and values of arbitrary processes via the -e option.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00123.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Sun	Solaris Sunos

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9.0::sparc:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-1999-1568	/usr/ucb/ps in Sun Microsystems Solaris 8 and 9, and certain earlier releases, allows local users to view the environment variables and values of arbitrary processes via the -e option.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/19426
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015833
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102215-1
http://www.osvdb.org/24200
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19662
http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/1996/1383.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1123
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25460
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1470

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-03-29T01:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:18:07.638Z

Reserved: 2006-03-28T00:00:00

Link: CVE-1999-1587

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 1999-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-1999-1587

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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