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CVE-1999-0687

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1999-09-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The ToolTalk ttsession daemon uses weak RPC authentication, which allows a remote attacker to execute commands.

Affected products

• Cde: 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 2.1 (+1)
• Digital Unix: 4.0d, 4.0f
• IBM AIX: 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.1.5 (+5)
• Sun Solaris: 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7.0
• Sunos: 4.1.3u1, 4.1.4, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.5.1 (+1)

References

• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/192
• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/k-001.shtml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/637
• http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=HPSBUX9909-103
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/192
• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/k-001.shtml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/637
• http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=HPSBUX9909-103

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