CVE-1999-0493

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 1999-06-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

rpc.statd allows remote attackers to forward RPC calls to the local operating system via the SM_MON and SM_NOTIFY commands, which in turn could be used to remotely exploit other bugs such as in automountd.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6
Sunos: 5.3, 5.4, 5.5.1

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91547759121289&w=2
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/186&type=0&nav=sec.sba
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-99-05-statd-automountd.html
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/j-045.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/450
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91547759121289&w=2
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/186&type=0&nav=sec.sba
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-99-05-statd-automountd.html
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/j-045.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/450

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