CVE-2008-4552: Nfs Nfs-Utils

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The good_client function in nfs-utils 1.0.9, and possibly other versions before 1.1.3, invokes the hosts_ctl function with the wrong order of arguments, which causes TCP Wrappers to ignore netgroups and allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.

Affected products

• Nfs Nfs-Utils: up to and including 1.1.2; version 0.2 only; version 0.2.1 only; version 0.3.1 only; version 0.3.3 only; version 1.0 only; …

Published 2008-10-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.