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CVE-1999-0084

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1990-05-01 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

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

Affected products

• Sun Nfs: all versions

References

• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78

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