CVE-1999-0084

HIGH

Sun NFS - Improper Privilege Management via mknod Device Creation

Title source: llm

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

Core 1

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf

CVSS v3 8.4

EPSS 0.0015

EPSS Percentile 34.6%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

CWE

CWE-269

Status published

Products (1)

sun/nfs

Published May 01, 1990

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026