CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-4552

7.5 HIGH Published 2008-10-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-10-14
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

The good_client function in nfs-utils 1.0.9, and possibly other versions before 1.1.3, invokes the hosts_ctl function with the wrong order of arguments, which causes TCP Wrappers to ignore netgroups and allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.

Affected configurations

• nfs nfs-utils (<= 1.1.2) • nfs nfs-utils 0.2 • nfs nfs-utils 0.2.1 • nfs nfs-utils 0.3.1 • nfs nfs-utils 0.3.3 • nfs nfs-utils 1.0 • nfs nfs-utils 1.0.1 • nfs nfs-utils 1.0.2 • nfs nfs-utils 1.0.3 • nfs nfs-utils 1.0.4 • nfs nfs-utils 1.0.6 • nfs nfs-utils 1.0.7 • nfs nfs-utils 1.0.8 • nfs nfs-utils 1.0.9 • nfs nfs-utils 1.0.10 • nfs nfs-utils 1.0.11 • nfs nfs-utils 1.0.12 • nfs nfs-utils 1.1.0 • nfs nfs-utils 1.1.1

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References