Sun SunOS up to 4.1.1 Suntools privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Sun SunOS up to 4.1.1. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Suntools. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-1999-0209. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Sun SunOS up to 4.1.1 (Operating System). This issue affects an unknown code of the component Suntools. 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. The summary by CVE is:

the sunview (suntools) selection_svc facility allows remote users to read files.

The weakness was shared 08/14/1990 by Peter Shipley (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-1999-0209. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as highly functional. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $5k-$25k. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 66034 (SunView selection_svc RPC Daemon Remote Access to Files Vulnerability).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 586. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 599.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (123), Exploit-DB (16326), SecurityFocus (BID 8†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-658†). The entry VDB-13615 is related to this item. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
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MetaSploit ID: ypupdated_exec.rb
MetaSploit Name: Solaris ypupdated Command Execution
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Snort ID: 586
Snort Message: PROTOCOL-RPC portmap selection_svc request UDP
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: Peter Shipley
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-1999-0209 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-1999-0209
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-13619
X-Force: 123
SecurityFocus: 8 - SunView selection_svc Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 658 - SunView selection_svc Vulnerability, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 06/16/2014 15:30
Updated: 10/26/2025 09:37
Changes: 06/16/2014 15:30 (72), 05/08/2019 06:59 (3), 01/01/2025 14:14 (21), 10/26/2025 09:37 (3)
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Cache ID: 216:FCD:103

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