CVE-1999-1486

lowpriority · track · 5EPSS 0.003 · 23 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.30% (23rd) EPSS

CVSS 1.2 · low

Is it mine?

10 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

sadc in IBM AIX 4.1 through 4.3, when called from programs such as timex that are setgid adm, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

cvss

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

1.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.01.2lowAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.9 · impact 2.9

v2.01lowAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-31USLLM-inferredCWE-59USLLM-inferred

affected products (10)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
ibm aix= 4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 4.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 4.1.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 4.1.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 4.1.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 4.1.5nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 4.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 4.2.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 4.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 1998-02-25modified 2026-06-16

references (12)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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