CVE-1999-1185: Sco Cmw

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in SCO mscreen allows local users to gain root privileges via a long terminal entry (TERM) in the .mscreenrc file.

Affected products

• Sco Cmw: version 3.0 only
• Sco Internet Faststart: version all_versions only
• Sco Open Desktop: version 3.0 only
• Sco Openserver: version 3.0 only; version 5.0 only
• Sco Openserver Enterprise System: version 5.0.4p only

Published 1998-10-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.