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CVE-1999-1585

• 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: 1999-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The (1) rcS and (2) mountall programs in Sun Solaris 2.x, possibly before 2.4, start a privileged shell on the system console if fsck fails while the system is booting, which allows attackers with physical access to gain root privileges.

Affected products

• Sunos: 5.0

References

• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-22-00124-1
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-22-00124-1

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