CVE-1999-1193 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting NeXT NeXTstep 2.1 and earlier, where the "me" user possesses wheel group privileges. This allows an attacker to easily use the 'su' command to gain root access. With a CVSS score of 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this vulnerability is highly severe, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity and results in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its age and high severity, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:next:next:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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