CVE-1999-1587 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2006-03-29

Score: 2.1 Low

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9.0::sparc:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:::::::*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-1999-1568	/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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00976.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
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

History

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Subscriptions

Sun Solaris Sunos

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-03-29T01:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:18:07.638Z

Reserved: 2006-03-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-1999-1587

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 1999-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-06-16T21:50:46.783

Link: CVE-1999-1587

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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