CVE-1999-0002

Exp

Buffer overflow in NFS mountd gives root access to remote attackers, mostly in Linux systems.

Published: 1998-10-12 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-1999-0002 is rated High Exploit Risk (87.5/100): CVSS Critical severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 9.98%, 93th percentile). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-1999-0002

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
19096 exploit_db edb 1998-08-28 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-1999-0002

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-23 10.10% 9.98% -0.13%
2 2026-03-04 11.47% 10.10% -1.37%
3 2026-03-01 — 11.47% —

Full EPSS history (44 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-1999-0002

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
10.0 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
 10.0 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-1999-0002

OS Trackers for CVE-1999-0002

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-1999-0002: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-1999-0002
redhat — — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-1999-0002

Affected software / configurations for CVE-1999-0002

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
bsdi bsd_os 1.1 cpe:2.3:o:bsdi:bsd_os:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
caldera openlinux 1.2 cpe:2.3:o:caldera:openlinux:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat linux 2.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat linux 2.1 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat linux 3.0.3 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat linux 4.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat linux 4.1 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat linux 4.2 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat linux 5.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat linux 5.1 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-1999-0002

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