CVE-1999-1027: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Solaris 2.6 HW3/98 installs admintool with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges by replacing it with a Trojan horse program.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.6 only

Published 1998-05-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.