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CVE-1999-0026

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FAUCET Score

CVE-1999-0026 is a legacy buffer overflow vulnerability affecting the pset command on SGI IRIX operating systems. With a CVSS score of 4.6, this medium-severity flaw allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code and gain root privileges, thereby compromising system confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While proof-of-concept exploit code is archived in ExploitDB, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation in the wild or recent community discussion regarding this issue.

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

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.91%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
56.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-19347 · Jul 17, 1997
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0091 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 3,052 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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/CVE-1999-0026