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User Mountable NFS shares
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
It is possible to access the remote NFS shares without having root privileges.
Insight
Insight
Some of the NFS shares exported by the remote server could be mounted by the scanning host. An attacker may exploit this problem to gain read (and possibly write) access to files on remote host. Note that root privileges were not required to mount the remote shares. That is, the source port to mount the shares was bigger than 1024.
Solution
Solution
Configure NFS on the remote host so that only authorized hosts can mount the remote shares. The remote NFS server should prevent mount requests originating from a non-privileged port.