CVE-2008-5699: Sun Opensolaris

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The name service cache daemon (nscd) in Sun Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris snv_50 through snv_104 does not properly check permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges and obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Sun Opensolaris: version snv_50 only; version snv_51 only; version snv_52 only; version snv_53 only; version snv_54 only; version snv_55 only; …
• Sun Solaris: version 10.0 only

Published 2008-12-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.