CVE-2000-0172 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the mtr program, affecting versions from Matt Kimball and Roger Wolff, as well as Turbolinux distributions. The flaw stems from mtr's insufficient privilege dropping mechanism, using only seteuid, which allows local users to gain root access. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (High) and an AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C vector, this vulnerability is easily exploitable locally with full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. While not observed in active exploitation or listed on the KEV catalog, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-19796) exists, indicating public exploit code availability, though there is no significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.28CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:matt_kimball_and_roger_wolff:mtr:0.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.41CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:matt_kimball_and_roger_wolff:mtr:0.41:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.5b2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:turbolinux:turbolinux:3.5b2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:turbolinux:turbolinux:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:turbolinux:turbolinux:4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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