CVE-2004-1942

Summary

CVECVE-2004-1942
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2004-04-19 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sun Patch Manager 113579-02 All All All
Application Sun Patch Manager 113579-03 All All All
Application Sun Patch Manager 113579-04 All All All
Application Sun Patch Manager 113579-05 All All All
Application Sun Patch Manager 114342-02 All All All
Application Sun Patch Manager 114342-03 All All All
Application Sun Patch Manager 114342-04 All All All
Application Sun Patch Manager 114342-05 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
'Solaris 9 patch 113579-03 introduces a NIS security bug' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
O-144: Sun ypserv and ypxfrd Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ciac.org Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Sun Solaris Patch Information Disclosure Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
#57554: Solaris 9 Patches WITHDRAWN - Security Vulnerability With ypserv(1M) and ypxfrd(1M) java.lang.NullPointerException af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sunsolve.sun.com Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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