CVE-2001-0823

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

The pmpost program in Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) before 2.2.1-3 allows a local user to gain privileges via a symlink attack on the NOTICES file in the PCP log directory (PCP_LOG_DIR).

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

Type

SGI Performance Co-Pilot

First reported 23 years ago

2001-12-06 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.1.1

2.1.1

SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.1.2

2.1.2

SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.1.3

2.1.3

SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.1.4

2.1.4

SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.1.5

2.1.5

SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.1.6

2.1.6

SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.1.7

2.1.7

SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.1.8

2.1.8

SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.1.9

2.1.9

SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.1.10

2.1.10

SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.1.11

2.1.11

SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.2

2.2

References

20010601-01-A

Patch

20010619 Re: pmpost - another nice symlink follower

Patch, Vendor Advisory

20010618 pmpost - another nice symlink follower

2887

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

irix-pcp-pmpost-symlink(6724)

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