CVE-1999-1461: Sgi Irix

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

inpview in InPerson on IRIX 5.3 through IRIX 6.5.10 trusts the PATH environmental variable to find and execute the ttsession program, which allows local users to obtain root access by modifying the PATH to point to a Trojan horse ttsession program.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 5.3 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.2 only; version 6.3 only; version 6.4 only; version 6.5.10 only

Published 1997-05-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.