CVE-1999-1137: Sun Solaris

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The permissions for the /dev/audio device on Solaris 2.2 and earlier, and SunOS 4.1.x, allow any local user to read from the device, which could be used by an attacker to monitor conversations happening near a machine that has a microphone.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: any version
• Sun Sunos: any version; up to and including 5.2; version 4.1 only; version 5.0 only

Published 1993-10-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.