CVE-1999-0961: HP HP-Ux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

HPUX sysdiag allows local users to gain root privileges via a symlink attack during log file creation.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 9.04 only; version 9.05 only

Published 1996-09-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.