CVE-1999-0185

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 1997-10-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

In SunOS or Solaris, a remote user could connect from an FTP server's data port to an rlogin server on a host that trusts the FTP server, allowing remote command execution.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1
Sunos: 4.1.3u1, 4.1.4, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.5.1

References

http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/156
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/156

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