CVE-1999-1232 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-1999-1232?

CVE-1999-1232 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Sgi Irix, published on 12 Sep 2001. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in day5datacopier in SGI IRIX 6.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a modified PATH environment variable that points to a malicious cp program.

Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-1232?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Sgi Irix.

How do I fix CVE-1999-1232?

No fix has been published for CVE-1999-1232 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-1999-1232 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-1999-1232 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Sgi Irix

• CVE-2002-1584 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-0139 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2003-0575 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2003-0473 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2002-0359 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 10.0

All Sgi Irix vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-3wf6-gcrx-pm3g.