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CVE-1999-0860

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1999-12-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Solaris chkperm allows local users to read files owned by bin via the VMSYS environmental variable and a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: 2.5.1, 2.6, 7.0
• Sunos: 5.5.1, 5.7

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/837
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/837

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