CVE-1999-1399: Sgi Irix

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

spaceball program in SpaceWare 7.3 v1.0 in IRIX 6.2 allows local users to gain root privileges by setting the HOSTNAME environmental variable to contain the commands to be executed.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 6.2 only

Published 1997-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.