CVE-1999-1247 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability within the HP Camera component of HP DCE/9000 on HP-UX 9.x systems, allowing an attacker to gain root privileges. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.2, indicating a critical impact with full confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise, and requires local access with low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decades-old vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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