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CVE-1999-0765

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CVE-1999-0765 describes a critical vulnerability in the SGI IRIX midikeys program, allowing local users to modify arbitrary files through a text editor. With a CVSS score of 10.0 (HIGH), this flaw presents a severe risk, enabling complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the CISA KEV list, an exploit for root access is available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-19210 · May 19, 1999
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0522 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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/19990501-01-A
securityfocus.com / bid/262