| Vulnerability Name: | CVE-1999-0084 (CCN-78) | ||||||||
| Assigned: | 1990-05-01 | ||||||||
| Published: | 1990-05-01 | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2017-10-10 | ||||||||
| Summary: | Certain NFS servers allow users to use mknod to gain privileges by creating a writable kmem device and setting the UID to 0. | ||||||||
| CVSS v3 Severity: | 9.3 Critical (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
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| CVSS v2 Severity: | 7.2 High (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
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| Vulnerability Type: | CWE-Other | ||||||||
| Vulnerability Consequences: | Gain Privileges | ||||||||
| References: | Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-1999-0084 Source: CCN Type: CERT Advisory CA-1991-21 SunOS NFS Jumbo and fsirand Patches Source: CCN Type: CERT Advisory CA-1992-15 Multiple SunOS Vulnerabilities Patched Source: CCN Type: CERT Advisory CA-1993-15 /usr/lib/sendmail, /bin/tar, and /dev/audio Vulnerabilities Source: CCN Type: CERT Advisory CA-1994-02 Revised Patch for SunOS /usr/etc/rpc.mountd Vulnerability Source: CCN Type: CERT Advisory CA-1994-15 NFS Vulnerabilities Source: CCN Type: OSVDB ID: 11601 Multiple Unix NFS mknod Device Creation Privilege Escalation Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN nfs-mknod(78) Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN nfs-mknod(78) | ||||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Configuration CCN 1:  Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||
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