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A vulnerability was found in Sun Solaris 2.6 (Operating System) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Admintool. The manipulation with an unknown input 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. CVE summarizes:
Solaris 2.6 HW3/98 installs admintool with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges by replacing it with a Trojan horse program.
The weakness was released 05/07/1998 by Paul B. Henson as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is available at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-1999-1027. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (7296).
Affected
- Sun Solaris up to 2.5.1
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- end of life
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.4VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.0
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VulDB Temp Score: 8.0
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Privileges managementCWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
05/07/1998 🔍05/07/1998 🔍
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06/19/2014 🔍
05/19/2018 🔍
Sources
Vendor: oracle.comAdvisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Researcher: Paul B. Henson
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-1999-1027 (🔍)
X-Force: 7296 - Sun Solaris admintool world writable permissions
SecurityFocus: 290 - Admintool mode 0777 Vulnerability
Entry
Created: 06/19/2014 15:07Updated: 05/19/2018 09:55
Changes: 06/19/2014 15:07 (53), 05/19/2018 09:55 (6)
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