01 Record
CVE-1999-0783
FreeBSD allows local users to conduct a denial of service by creating a hard link from a device special file to a file on an NFS file system.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
FreeBSD allows local users to conduct a denial of service by creating a hard link from a device special file to a file on an NFS file system.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.76% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 54.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2000-03-22 05:00Z26 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-01 16:48Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 1999-11-25
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5a65715c9d2197379083318f7e22ffac92c6db445d4b21e616e0442cc7454b6a
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.ciac.orgI-057http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-057.shtml
- www.osvdb.org6090http://www.osvdb.org/6090