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CVE-1999-0115

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-1999-0115 describes a vulnerability in the AIX bugfiler program that allows local users to gain root access. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.2) has a local attack vector with low complexity, enabling an unauthenticated attacker to achieve complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, an ExploitDB entry for arbitrary file creation exists, though there is no evidence of broader community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:3.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:3.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
49.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20290 · Sep 8, 1997
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0070 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 3,241 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

securityfocus.com / bid/1800