| Vulnerability Name: | CVE-1999-0138 (CCN-429) | ||||||||
| Assigned: | 1996-06-26 | ||||||||
| Published: | 1996-06-26 | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2022-08-17 | ||||||||
| Summary: | The suidperl and sperl program do not give up root privileges when changing UIDs back to the original users, allowing root access. | ||||||||
| CVSS v3 Severity: | 9.3 Critical (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
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| CVSS v2 Severity: | 7.2 High (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
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| Vulnerability Type: | CWE-Other | ||||||||
| Vulnerability Consequences: | Gain Privileges | ||||||||
| References: | Source: CCN Type: Caldera International, Inc. Security Advisory SA-96.02 Vulnerability of Perl suidperl program Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-1999-0138 Source: CCN Type: CERT Advisory CA-1996-12 Vulnerability in suidperl Source: CCN Type: OSVDB ID: 10871 Perl suidperl UID Change Failure Privilege Escalation Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN sperl-suid(429) Source: MISC Type: UNKNOWN https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0138 | ||||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Configuration CCN 1:  Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||
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