Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-0084 - Unspecified vulnerability in SUN NFS

047910
CVSS 7.2 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
low complexity
sun

Summary

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

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Sun
1