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CVE-1999-0328

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FAUCET Score

CVE-1999-0328 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the SGI permissions program affecting SGI IRIX 6.4. This high-severity flaw, with a CVSS score of 7.2, allows an unauthenticated local attacker to gain full root privileges due to a buffer overflow. While not actively exploited in the wild and lacking Metasploit or Nuclei modules, an exploit for this vulnerability is publicly available on ExploitDB, though it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:5.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
48.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-19318 · May 26, 1997
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0068 is in the 69th 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

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/19971103-01-PX