CVE-2000-0947

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

Format string vulnerability in cfd daemon in GNU CFEngine before 1.6.0a11 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via format characters in the CAUTH command.

Format string vulnerability in cfd daemon in GNU CFEngine before 1.6.0a11 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via format characters in the CAUTH command.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 24 years ago

2000-12-19 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

GNU Cfengine 1.5

1.5

GNU Cfengine 1.5.3_4

1.5.3-4

References

NetBSD-SA2000-013

20001002 Very probable remote root vulnerability in cfengine

MDKSA-2000:061

Patch, Vendor Advisory

1757

Patch, Vendor Advisory

cfengine-cfd-format-string(5630)

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