CVE-2008-6559: Sco Reliantha

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Merge mcd in ReliantHA 1.1.4 in SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 allows local users to gain root privileges via a crafted -d argument that contains .. (dot dot) sequences that point to a directory containing a file whose name includes shell metacharacters.

Affected products

• Sco Reliantha: version 1.1.4 only
• Sco Unixware: version 7.1.4 only

Published 2009-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.