CVE-2003-1073: Sun Solaris

Low severity, CVSS 1.2. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A race condition in the at command for Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows local users to delete arbitrary files via the -r argument with .. (dot dot) sequences in the job name, then modifying the directory structure after at checks permissions to delete the file and before the deletion actually takes place.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.6 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified; version 5.5 only; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.7 only; version 5.8 only

Published 2003-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.