CVE Catalog

CVE-2004-1942

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Solaris 9 patches 113579-02 through 113579-05 and 114342-02 through 114342-05 fail to properly restrict access to secure NIS maps, allowing local users to use ypcat or ypmatch to extract the contents of a secure map such as passwd.adjunct.byname.

Risk Assessment

A local user can access sensitive data such as passwords in the passwd.adjunct.byname map, leading to confidentiality breach and potential privilege escalation.

Recommendation

Apply updated patches for Solaris 9 (versions later than 113579-05 and 114342-05) or implement alternative access control mechanisms for NIS maps.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The Solaris 9 patches 113579-02 through 113579-05, and 114342-02 through 114342-05, prevent ypserv and ypxfrd from properly restricting access to secure NIS maps, which allows local users to use ypcat or ypmatch to extract the contents of a secure map such as passwd.adjunct.byname.

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