CVE-2004-1942

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-04-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Sun Patch Manager: 113579-02, 113579-03, 113579-04, 113579-05, 114342-02, 114342-03 (+2)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108241638500417&w=2
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57554-1
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-144.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10261
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15908
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108241638500417&w=2
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57554-1
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-144.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10261
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15908

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