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CVE-1999-0002

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CVE-1999-0002 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability residing in the NFS mountd service that affects legacy systems running specific versions of RedHat Linux, Caldera, and BSD OS. This flaw carries a maximum CVSS score of 10.0, enabling unauthenticated remote attackers to exploit the system with low complexity to achieve full root access. While historical proof-of-concept code is available via ExploitDB, there is currently no indication of active exploitation, community discussion, or inclusion in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:bsdi:bsd_os:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:caldera:openlinux:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
27.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-19096 · Aug 28, 1998
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2786 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-1999-0002

CVE-1999-0002

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/19981006-01-I
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/j-006.shtml
securityfocus.com / bid/121
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory