{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-6559 exists.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2008-6559 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2008-6559 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sco Unixware, published on 30 Mar 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2008-6559 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2008-6559 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sco Unixware, published on 30 Mar 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-6559 exists.\n\nAffected product: Sco Unixware. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-6559/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-6559/index.md)","id":"CVE-2008-6559","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-6559/index.md","name":"CVE-2008-6559","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-fj42-9q29-3g2m"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"SCO UnixWare OS","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can gain root privileges in SCO UnixWare by exploiting a path traversal vulnerability in the mcd utility.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"reliantha","vendor":"sco"},{"product":"unixware","vendor":"sco"}],"cvss":{"score":7.2,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-20","name":"Improper Input Validation"}],"description":"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2008-04-04","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2008-04-04","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"5357","stars":null,"title":"SCO UnixWare Merge - 'mcd' Local Privilege Escalation"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-6559","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"sco:unixware","products":["sco:unixware"],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2008"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-6560"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-6558"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2009-03-30","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-07","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local attackers can gain root privileges in SCO UnixWare by exploiting a path traversal vulnerability in the mcd utility.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-6559/"}