University Of Arizona Glimpse Http 2.0 aglimpse privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in University Of Arizona Glimpse Http 2.0. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component aglimpse. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-1999-0147. Moreover, an exploit is present.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in University Of Arizona Glimpse Http 2.0. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component aglimpse. 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:

the aglimpse cgi program of the glimpse package allows remote execution of arbitrary commands.

The weakness was disclosed 07/01/1997 by Razvan Dragomirescu. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-1999-0147. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10095 (Glimpse HTTP aglimpse Arbitrary Command Execution), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses and running in the context r. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 10012 (aglimpse" CGI 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 825. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 684.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (350), Exploit-DB (20449), Tenable (10095), SecurityFocus (BID 2026†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-213†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 10095
Nessus Name: Glimpse HTTP aglimpse Arbitrary Command Execution
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Snort ID: 825
Snort Message: SERVER-WEBAPP glimpse access
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07/01/1997 +363 days 🔍
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06/18/2014 +4256 days 🔍
10/26/2025 +4148 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Researcher: Razvan Dragomirescu
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-1999-0147 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-1999-0147
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-13922
X-Force: 350
SecurityFocus: 2026 - GlimpseHTTP and WebGlimpse Piped Command Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 213 - aglimpse CGI cmd exec, High

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

Entryinfo

Created: 06/18/2014 11:58
Updated: 10/26/2025 22:00
Changes: 06/18/2014 11:58 (65), 05/05/2019 16:17 (3), 01/09/2025 20:07 (27), 10/26/2025 22:00 (3)
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Cache ID: 216:F81:103

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