CVE-2000-1125 Privilege escalation in n/a
Local attackers can gain root privileges by exploiting the restore utility's trust in the RSH environment variable to execute a Trojan horse.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2000-1125?
CVE-2000-1125 is a high-severity vulnerability in Redhat Linux, published on 19 Dec 2000. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-1125?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Redhat Linux.
How do I fix CVE-2000-1125?
No fix has been published for CVE-2000-1125 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2000-1125 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2000-1125 exists.
Public exploit code: 3 Exploit-DB entries.
Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Linux
Sources
Also known as GHSA-5v9r-wpqf-v2w9.