CVE-1999-0689: Cde

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The CDE dtspcd daemon allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Cde Cde: version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; …
• Sun Solaris: version 2.5 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 2.6 only; version 7.0 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified; version 5.5 only; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.7 only

Published 1999-09-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.