CVE-1999-0084: Sun Nfs

High severity, CVSS 8.4. 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.

Affected products

• Sun Nfs: any version

Published 1990-05-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.