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A vulnerability was found in Digital Unix 4.0b (Operating System) and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component xterm. The manipulation of the argument DISPLAY
as part of a Environment Variable leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
xterm in digital unix 4.0b *with* patch kit 5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a core dump file which is created when xterm is called with a display environmental variable set to a display that xterm cannot access.
The weakness was disclosed 11/12/1997 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at marc.theaimsgroup.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-1999-1210. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (613).
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.4VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.4
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Exploiting
Class: Privileges managementCWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Timeline
11/12/1997 🔍11/12/1997 🔍
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Sources
Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.comStatus: Not defined
CVE: CVE-1999-1210 (🔍)
X-Force: 613 - Setting DISPLAY to nonexistent value allows user to overwrite system files with core files
Entry
Created: 06/18/2014 17:28Updated: 05/19/2018 09:51
Changes: 06/18/2014 17:28 (47), 05/19/2018 09:51 (6)
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