CVE-1999-1587

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 1999-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

/usr/ucb/ps in Sun Microsystems Solaris 8 and 9, and certain earlier releases, allows local users to view the environment variables and values of arbitrary processes via the -e option.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 9.0
Sunos: 5.8

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19426
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015833
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102215-1
http://www.osvdb.org/24200
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19662
http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/1996/1383.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1123
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25460
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1470
http://secunia.com/advisories/19426
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015833
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102215-1

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