CVE-2004-1942

Published: May 10, 2005Updated: Apr 16, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDNVD-CWE-Other

7.5HIGH

NVD 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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAccess Vector

Network

AC:LAccess Complexity

Low

Au:NAuthentication

None

Impact

C:PConfidentiality

Partial

I:PIntegrity

Partial

A:PAvailability

Partial

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

sun

commercial·US

patch managerOn-prem

Operating Systems / unix-bsd

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

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References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108241638500417&w=2

marc.info

http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-144.shtml

ciac.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10261

securityfocus.com

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