CVE-1999-1587: Sun Solaris

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

/usr/ucb/ps in Sun Microsystems Solaris 8 and 9, and certain earlier releases, allows local users to view the environment variables and values of arbitrary processes via the -e option.

Affected products

  • Sun Solaris: version 9.0 only
  • Sun Sunos: version 5.8 only

Published 1999-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.