Vulnerability Report

CVE-1999-1138

Title: CVE-1999-1138

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-1999-1138.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Sep 17, 1993
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.58%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-1999-1138: SCO UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2, and other SCO products, installs the home directories (1) /tmp for the dos user, and (2) /usr/tmp for the asg user, which allows other users to gain access to those accounts since /tmp and /usr/tmp are world-writable.

Impacted Vendors

S
sco 4
U
unix 1
C
caldera 1
X
xinuos 1

Reference Links

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1993-13.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/546 http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1993-13.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/546
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
10.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-1999-1138 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.