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CVE-2001-1555

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2001-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

pt_chmod in Solaris 8 does not call fdetach to reset terminal privileges when users log out of terminals, which allows local users to write to other users' terminals by modifying the ACL of a TTY.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: 8.0
• Sunos: 5.8

References

• http://securitytracker.com/id?1002732
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1004035
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-43929-1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3522
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1002732
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1004035
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-43929-1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3522

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