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CVE-2004-1942
The Solaris 9 patches 113579-02 through 113579-05, and 114342-02 through 114342-05, prevent ypserv and ypxfrd from properly restricting…
High7.5EPSS 1.4%
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- mitre
Description
The Solaris 9 patches 113579-02 through 113579-05, and 114342-02 through 114342-05, prevent ypserv and ypxfrd from properly restricting access to secure NIS maps, which allows local users to use ypcat or ypmatch to extract the contents of a secure map such as passwd.adjunct.byname.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- 20040419 Solaris 9 patch 113579-03 introduces a NIS security bug (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- O-144 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIACx_transferred
- 10261 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 57554 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- solaris-nis-unauth-privileges(15908) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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