CVE-1999-0836 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in UnixWare's uidadmin utility, affecting various versions of SCO UnixWare. This flaw allows local users to modify arbitrary files through a symlink attack, posing a critical risk with a CVSS score of 10.0 due to its network-accessible attack vector, low complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild or on CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sco:unixware:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sco:unixware:7.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sco:unixware:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sco:unixware:7.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/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.