CVE-1999-1308

CVSS 2.0 Score 4.6 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Jul 31, 1997
Updated: Nov 20, 2024

Summary

CVE-1999-1308 is a vulnerability affecting certain programs in HP-UX 10.20. This issue arises due to the inability of these programs to manage user IDs (UID) and group IDs (GID) exceeding 60,000 appropriately. Consequently, local users with large IDs can potentially exploit this flaw to elevate their privileges.

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Affected Products

  • HP-UX family of operating systems

Affected Vendors

  • HP