CVE-1999-1450

Summary

CVE-1999-1450 is a privileges escalation vulnerability affecting the rlogin daemon (rshd) and scheme component on SCO UNIX OpenServer 5.0.5 and earlier, as well as SCO UnixWare 7.0.1 and earlier. An attacker can exploit this issue to elevate their privileges remotely. This weakness stems from improperly handled environment variables, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. This vulnerability poses a significant risk and requires immediate mitigation through patches or updates.

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