CVE-1999-0084
HIGH
8.4
CVSS Score
Published: September 29, 1999 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:47 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorNFS
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Severity
HIGH8.4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
No known exploit
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 guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (1)
VDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78SSVC — Action Prioritization
SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact
SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.
CVSS
8.4HIGHCISA-ADP
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-OtherCWE-269
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