cve-1999-0084
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
1999-09-29 04:00
Modified
2024-08-01 20:39
Severity ?
8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Certain NFS servers allow users to use mknod to gain privileges by creating a writable kmem device and setting the UID to 0.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78
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