CVE detail

CVE-1999-0084 — CVE-1999-0084

Published 1990-05-01 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor sun · Product nfs · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

8.4

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0042

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

34.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

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

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

NVD entry ↗
CVE.org record ↗

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