CVE-1999-0084

8.4 highEPSS 0.4%

High (8.4) in sun nfs. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Severity

8.4 high

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

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 35% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-269
Published: 1990-05-01
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19