CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-0084

8.4 HIGH Published 1990-05-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1990-05-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
8.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Description

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

Affected configurations

• sun nfs

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References