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CVE-1999-0168

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1992-06-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The portmapper may act as a proxy and redirect service requests from an attacker, making the request appear to come from the local host, possibly bypassing authentication that would otherwise have taken place. For example, NFS file systems could be mounted through the portmapper despite export restrictions.

Affected products

• Sunos: 4.1.3, 4.1.3c

References

• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0168
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0168

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