CVE-1999-0097: HP HP-Ux

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The AIX FTP client can be forced to execute commands from a malicious server through shell metacharacters (e.g. a pipe character).

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 9.00 only; version 9.01 only; version 9.03 only; version 9.04 only; version 9.05 only; version 9.06 only; …
• IBM Aix: version 3.2 only; version 3.2.4 only; version 3.2.5 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.1.1 only; version 4.1.2 only; …
• Sun Solaris: version 2.4 only; version 2.5 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 2.6 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified; version 4.1.3c only; version 4.1.3u1 only; version 4.1.4 only; version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only; …

Published 1997-10-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.