What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0988

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1999-12-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

UnixWare pkgtrans allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Sco Unixware: 2.0, 2.0.3, 2.1, 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1 (+2)

References

• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0988
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0988

Get alerted when CVE-1999-0988 or the next vulnerability affects your stack