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CVE-1999-0961

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1996-09-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

HPUX sysdiag allows local users to gain root privileges via a symlink attack during log file creation.

Affected products

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HP-UX: 9.04, 9.05

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167419906&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167419906&w=2

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