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CVE-2008-5699

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-12-22 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The name service cache daemon (nscd) in Sun Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris snv_50 through snv_104 does not properly check permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges and obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Sun Opensolaris: snv_50, snv_51, snv_52, snv_53, snv_54, snv_55 (+49)
• Sun Solaris: 10.0

References

• http://osvdb.org/50934
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33218
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021477
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-242006-1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32921
• http://osvdb.org/50934
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33218
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021477
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-242006-1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32921

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