CVE-1999-1424: Sun Solstice Adminsuite

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Solaris Solstice AdminSuite (AdminSuite) 2.1 uses unsafe permissions when adding new users to the NIS+ password table, which allows local users to gain root access by modifying their password table entries.

Affected products

• Sun Solstice Adminsuite: version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only

Published 1997-11-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.