CVE-1999-0982: Sun Solaris

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

The Sun Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) installation script stores a password in plaintext in a world readable file.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 8.0 only
• Sun Web-Based Enterprise Management: version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only

Published 1999-12-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.