CVE-1999-1501 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting SGI IRIX 6.3. The ipxchk and ipxlink utilities fail to properly clear the IFS environmental variable before executing system calls, allowing local users to execute arbitrary commands. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6 (Medium), indicating low attack complexity and requiring local access, with potential impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this old vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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