CVE-1999-0084

CVE-1999-0084 is a high vulnerability published on May 1, 1990. Certain NFS servers allow users to use mknod to gain privileges by creating a writable kmem device and setting the UID to 0.

CVE-1999-0084 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on May 1, 1990, with the most recent update on April 16, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.

CVE-1999-0084 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 34.7% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.

CVE-1999-0084 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.4 (NVD).

Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-1999-0084, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.