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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in UNIX-V7. This affects an unknown part of the file /dev/tty of the component Login Terminal. The manipulation leads to privileges management. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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A vulnerability was found in UNIX-V7 (Operating System) (the affected version unknown). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the file /dev/tty of the component Login Terminal. 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.

The weakness was disclosed 08/25/1981 by Tom Truscott and James Ellis (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securitydigest.org. The attack may be launched remotely. A simple authentication is necessary for exploitation. Technical details as well as a exploit are known. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

After before and not just, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

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 OSVDB (19197†). The entries VDB-76405, VDB-94827, VDB-94828 and VDB-94829 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• UNIX-V7

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