SGI IRIX 6.2 SpaceWare Hostname privileges management

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in SGI IRIX 6.2. This affects an unknown function of the component SpaceWare. The manipulation of the argument Hostname as part of Environment Variable leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-1999-1399. Moreover, an exploit is present. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in SGI IRIX 6.2 (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component SpaceWare. The manipulation of the argument HOSTNAME 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:

spaceball program in spaceware 7.3 v1.0 in irix 6.2 allows local users to gain root privileges by setting the hostname environmental variable to contain the commands to be executed.

The issue has been introduced in 03/01/1996. The weakness was disclosed 08/20/1997 by J.A. Guitierrez as not defined posting (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at marc.theaimsgroup.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-1999-1399. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 537 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (19357) and SecurityFocus (BID 471†). The entry VDB-13971 is pretty similar. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• SGI

Name

• IRIX

Version

• 6.2

License

• commercial

Support

• end of life (old version)

Website

• Vendor: http://www.sgi.com/

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