CVE-2000-0393

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

16/05/2000

Last modified:

03/04/2025

Description

The KDE kscd program does not drop privileges when executing a program specified in a user&#39;s SHELL environmental variable, which allows the user to gain privileges by specifying an alternate program to execute.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete