CVE-1999-1114

highpriority · track · 39EPSS 0.011 · 65 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

1.07% (65th) EPSS

CVSS 7.2 · high

Is it mine?

13 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Buffer overflow in Korn Shell (ksh) suid_exec program on IRIX 6.x and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to gain root privileges.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–7.2

v2.07.2highAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 10

v2.06.5mediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-19353SGI IRIX 6.4 - 'suid_exec' Local Privilege Escalationfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (13)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
sgi irix= 5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgi irix= 5.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgi irix= 5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgi irix= 5.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgi irix= 5.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgi irix= 5.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgi irix= 6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgi irix= 6.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgi irix= 6.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgi irix= 6.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgi irix= 6.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgi irix= 6.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 1998-04-08modified 2026-06-16

references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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