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CVE-1999-0138

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1996-06-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The suidperl and sperl program do not give up root privileges when changing UIDs back to the original users, allowing root access.

Affected products

• Apple A Ux: 3.1.1
• Digital Osf 1: 1.3
• FreeBSD: 2.0, 2.0.5, 2.1.0
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HP-UX: 8, 9, 10
• IBM AIX: 3.2.5, 4
• Linux kernel: 1.2.0, 2.0
• NEC Asl Ux 4800: all versions
• NEC Ews-Ux V: 4.2, 4.2mp
• NEC Up-Ux V: 4.2mp

References

• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0138
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0138

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