CVE-1999-1587
/usr/ucb/ps in Sun Microsystems Solaris 8 and 9, and certain earlier releases, allows local users to view the environment variables and…
- 2.1LowCVSS base score
- 0.98%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 37% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
/usr/ucb/ps in Sun Microsystems Solaris 8 and 9, and certain earlier releases, allows local users to view the environment variables and values of arbitrary processes via the -e option.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits1
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Solaris 8/9 - '/usr/ucb/ps' Local Information Leak (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 2242local, solarispublished 22 Aug 2006Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.98% · top 37% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References9
- ADV-2006-1123 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1015833 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1470 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 19426 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- solaris-ps-information-disclosure(25460) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 102215 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/1996/1383.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 19662 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 24200 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-1999-1568 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-1999-1587)Record last updated .