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CVE-1999-0025

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FAUCET Score

CVE-1999-0025 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting legacy SGI IRIX systems caused by a buffer overflow in the df command. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this high-severity flaw allows a local attacker to easily gain root access, leading to a complete compromise of system confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Although historical exploit code is publicly available through ExploitDB, the vulnerability is currently inactive with no recent media coverage, community discussion, or presence on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
12.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-19274 · May 24, 1997
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1226 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 3,241 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/440
cert.org / advisories/CA-1997-21.html
US Government Resource
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/20851
US Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/346