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CVE-1999-1388

• 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: yes
• Published: 1994-05-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

passwd in SunOS 4.1.x allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack and the -F command line argument.

Affected products

• Sunos: 4.1

References

• http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_4/0755.html
• http://www2.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_2/0197.html
• http://www2.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_2/0207.html
• http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_4/0755.html
• http://www2.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_2/0197.html
• http://www2.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_2/0207.html

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