CVE-1999-1286: Sgi Irix

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

addnetpr in SGI IRIX 6.2 and earlier allows local users to modify arbitrary files and possibly gain root access via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: up to and including 6.2; version 5.3 only

Published 1997-05-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.