CVE-2000-0698 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Minicom 1.82.1 and earlier on certain Linux systems. An attacker can exploit this flaw by using a symlink attack to create arbitrary files owned by the uucp user. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (MEDIUM), indicating a low attack complexity and partial integrity impact, but no confidentiality or availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild, exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and there is no significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.82.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:minicom:minicom:1.82.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.82.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:minicom:minicom:1.82.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.83.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:minicom:minicom:1.83.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.83.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:minicom:minicom:1.83.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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