VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-1999-0084

CVSS score8.4 HIGH

EPSS probability0.41%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published1990-05-01

Last modified2026-06-16

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

Description

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