CVE-1999-0084

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Certain NFS servers allow users to use mknod to gain privileges by creating a writable kmem device and setting the UID to 0.

Certain NFS servers allow users to use mknod to gain privileges by creating a writable kmem device and setting the UID to 0.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 34 years ago

1990-05-01 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

Sun NFS

References

nfs-mknod(78)

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