CVE-1999-0334: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Solaris 2.2 and 2.3, when fsck fails on startup, it allows a local user with physical access to obtain root access.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: any version
• Sun Sunos: version 5.0 only

Published 1993-12-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.