Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 4, 1992· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-1999-0168
CVE-1999-0168
Description
The portmapper may act as a proxy and redirect service requests from an attacker, making the request appear to come from the local host, possibly bypassing authentication that would otherwise have taken place. For example, NFS file systems could be mounted through the portmapper despite export restrictions.
Affected products
2cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:4.1.3c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
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