CVE-1999-1080

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

rmmount in SunOS 5.7 may mount file systems without the nosuid flag set, contrary to the documentation and its use in previous versions of SunOS, which could allow local users with physical access to gain root privileges by mounting a floppy or CD-ROM that contains a setuid program and running volcheck, when the file systems do not have the nosuid option specified in rmmount.conf.

rmmount in SunOS 5.7 may mount file systems without the nosuid flag set, contrary to the documentation and its use in previous versions of SunOS, which could allow local users with physical access to gain root privileges by mounting a floppy or CD-ROM that contains a setuid program and running volcheck, when the file systems do not have the nosuid option specified in rmmount.conf.

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 29 years ago

1995-05-10 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-05-03 01:29:00

Affected Software

Sun Microsystems Solaris 7

5.7

References

19990510 SunOS 5.7 rmmount, no nosuid.

19991011

250

solaris-rmmount-gain-root(8350)

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