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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 MITRE
                        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
 Vulnrichment
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 1992-06-04T04:00:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-1999-0168
 Redhat
                        Redhat
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