CVE-1999-1139

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 1997-09-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Character-Terminal User Environment (CUE) in HP-UX 11.0 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the IOERROR.mytty file.

Affected products

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HP-UX: through 11.00

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602880019745&w=2
http://security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-199801/0122.html
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-027b.shtml
http://www.codetalker.com/advisories/vendor/hp/hpsbux9801-074.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/2007.php
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602880019745&w=2
http://security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-199801/0122.html
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-027b.shtml
http://www.codetalker.com/advisories/vendor/hp/hpsbux9801-074.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/2007.php

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