CVE-1999-0168High· 7.5▾ TwilightThe 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 syst…
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 41.3 · likelihood 0.4 · exploitation 0
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Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Jul 4.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
Last analysed / modified upstream
1.7%
1.7% → 1.8%
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.
Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.