CVE-2001-1555: Sun Solaris

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pt_chmod in Solaris 8 does not call fdetach to reset terminal privileges when users log out of terminals, which allows local users to write to other users' terminals by modifying the ACL of a TTY.

Affected products

  • Sun Solaris: version 8.0 only
  • Sun Sunos: version 5.8 only

Published 2001-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.