CVE-1999-0493: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

rpc.statd allows remote attackers to forward RPC calls to the local operating system via the SM_MON and SM_NOTIFY commands, which in turn could be used to remotely exploit other bugs such as in automountd.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.4 only; version 2.5 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 2.6 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified; version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only; version 5.5.1 only

Published 1999-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.