CVE-1999-1239: HP HP-Ux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

HP-UX 9.x does not properly enable the Xauthority mechanism in certain conditions, which could allow local users to access the X display even when they have not explicitly been authorized to do so.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 9 only

Published 1994-07-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.