CVE-2000-0018 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the wmmon utility within FreeBSD, affecting Windowmaker wmmon. An attacker can exploit this by manipulating the .wmmonrc configuration file to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges. This vulnerability carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.2, indicating that it is easily exploitable locally with full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the CISA KEV catalog, public exploit code exists (EDB-19685), though there is no significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0b2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:windowmaker:wmmon:1.0b2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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