CVE-1999-0138 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the suidperl and sperl programs, affecting various operating systems including Apple, Digital, FreeBSD, HP, IBM, Linux, and NEC. The flaw allows root access because the programs fail to properly relinquish root privileges after changing UIDs back to the original user. This is a high-severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.2, indicating local access, low attack complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:a_ux:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:digital:osf_1:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.