NFS Exported Share Information Disclosure

critical Nessus Plugin ID 11356

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Synopsis

It is possible to access NFS shares on the remote host.

Description

At least one of the NFS shares exported by the remote server could be mounted by the scanning host. An attacker may be able to leverage this to read (and possibly write) files on remote host.

Note: Shares protected by an ACL that includes the IP of the Nessus host will not be tested.

Solution

Configure NFS on the remote host so that only authorized hosts can mount its remote shares.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 11356

File Name: nfs_mount.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: remote

Family: RPC

Published: 3/12/2003

Updated: 10/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-1999-0554

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: rpc/portmap, nfs/exportlist

Excluded KB Items: nfs/noshares

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/1/1999

Exploitable With

Metasploit (NFS Mount Scanner)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-1999-0170, CVE-1999-0211, CVE-1999-0554

Detections

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