CVE-1999-1219High· 7.2▾ MidnightPoC availableVulnerability in sgihelp in the SGI help system and print manager in IRIX 5.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges, possibly through the clogin command.
▾ Midnight zone — Critical, or high with PoC / in-the-wild
impact 39.6 · likelihood 0.3 · exploitation 12
A public proof-of-concept already exists for this vulnerability — see Exploit availability below.
Public exploit / PoC code seen in 1 source. Availability, not in-the-wild use.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Jul 4.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
Last analysed / modified upstream
1.3%
Exploit-DB (last check)
Vulnerability in sgihelp in the SGI help system and print manager in IRIX 5.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges, possibly through the clogin command.
Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.