CVE-2000-0702

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

The net.init rc script in HP-UX 11.00 (S008net.init) allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack that points from /tmp/stcp.conf to the targeted file.

The net.init rc script in HP-UX 11.00 (S008net.init) allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack that points from /tmp/stcp.conf to the targeted file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 24 years ago

2000-10-20 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

HP-UX 11.00

11.00

References

20000821 [HackersLab bugpaper] HP-UX net.init rc script

Exploit

1602

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

hp-netinit-symlink(5131)

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