CVE-1999-1026: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

aspppd on Solaris 2.5 x86 allows local users to modify arbitrary files and gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the /tmp/.asppp.fifo file.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.4 only; version 2.5 only; version 2.5.1 only

Published 1996-12-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.