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CVE-1999-0982

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: 1999-12-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Sun Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) installation script stores a password in plaintext in a world readable file.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: 8.0-beta
• Sun Web-Based Enterprise Management: 1.0, 2.0

References

• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0982
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0982

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