CVE-2000-1125

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

restore 0.4b15 and earlier in Red Hat Linux 6.2 trusts the pathname specified by the RSH environmental variable, which allows local users to obtain root privileges by modifying the RSH variable to point to a Trojan horse program.

restore 0.4b15 and earlier in Red Hat Linux 6.2 trusts the pathname specified by the RSH environmental variable, which allows local users to obtain root privileges by modifying the RSH variable to point to a Trojan horse program.

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

2001-01-09 05:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:08:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Linux 6.2

6.2

Red Hat Linux 6.2E

6.2e

References

20001104 Redhat 6.2 restore exploit

1914

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