Vulnerability CVE-1999-0084


Published: 1990-05-01   Modified: 2012-02-12

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

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
SUN -> NFS 

 References:
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78

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