CVE Catalog

CVE-1999-0084

HighCVSS 8.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.42%

33th percentile - higher than 33% of all known CVEs

Summary

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

Risk Assessment

An attacker could gain unauthorized access to the system with administrator privileges, potentially leading to serious security breaches.

Recommendation

It is recommended to restrict access to the mknod command and implement appropriate security measures on NFS servers.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS