CVE-1999-0959

CVE-1999-0959 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the startmidi program within SGI IRIX. An attacker can exploit this flaw by using a symlink attack to modify arbitrary files on the system. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-19355) exists, indicating public exploit code availability, though community discussion and media coverage are absent.