CVE-1999-0309 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the HP-UX vgdisplay program, affecting HP-UX systems. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.2) allows an unauthenticated local attacker to gain root access with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this older vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
10.00CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:10.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.01CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:10.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:10.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:10.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.24CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:10.24:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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