# CVE-2000-1163: Privilege escalation in n/a

> Local attackers can execute arbitrary code as other users by placing a malicious library in the current directory when Ghostscript is run.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.6 (`AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Jan 2001
- **Updated:** 8 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2v37-26xm-h4rf

## What is CVE-2000-1163?

CVE-2000-1163 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 22 Jan 2001. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

ghostscript before 5.10-16 uses an empty LD_RUN_PATH environmental variable to find libraries in the current directory, which could allow local users to execute commands as other users by placing a Trojan horse library into a directory from which another user executes ghostscript.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-1163?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript.

## How do I fix CVE-2000-1163?

No fix has been published for CVE-2000-1163 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2000-1163 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2000-1163 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2002-0363](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2002-0363/): Command injection in n/a (high 7.5)
- [CVE-1999-0155](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-0155/): Command injection in n/a (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2004-0967](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-0967/): Path traversal in n/a (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2000-1162](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2000-1162/): Path traversal in n/a (low 3.7)
- [CVE-2001-1353](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2001-1353/): Path traversal in n/a (low 2.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2000-1163 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2000-1163 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 22 Jan 2001. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2000-1163 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2000-1163/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2000-1163/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2000-1163
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-1163
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2000-1163

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2000-1163/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.