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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.2

CVE-1999-0164 json

A race condition in the Solaris ps command allows an attacker to overwrite critical files.

published 1995-08-29 31 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-1999-0164

cvss
6.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 22%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A race condition in the Solaris ps command allows an attacker to overwrite critical files.

Exploit prediction

0.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 22% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.2 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.