Privilege Escalation in UnixWare dos7utils via STATICMERGE Environmental Variable

Privilege Escalation in UnixWare dos7utils via STATICMERGE Environmental Variable

CVE-1999-0942 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

UnixWare dos7utils allows a local user to gain root privileges by using the STATICMERGE environmental variable to find a script which it executes.

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