CVE-2000-0703

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

20/10/2000

Last modified:

03/04/2025

Description

suidperl (aka sperl) does not properly cleanse the escape sequence "~!" before calling /bin/mail to send an error report, which allows local users to gain privileges by setting the "interactive" environmental variable and calling suidperl with a filename that contains the escape sequence.

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

Base Score 2.0

7.20

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.4.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.5.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.6:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.4.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.5.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.6:::::::*

CVE-2000-0703

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools