The portmapper may act as a proxy and redirect service requests from an attacker, making the request appear to come from the local host, possibly bypassing authentication that would otherwise have taken place. For example, NFS file systems could be mounted through the portmapper despite export restrictions.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 1999-09-29T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-01T16:27:57.737Z

Reserved: 1999-06-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-1999-0168

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 1992-06-04T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2022-08-17T07:15:12.890

Link: CVE-1999-0168

cve-icon Redhat

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