CVE-2000-0715 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the diskcheck.pl script within Red Hat Linux 6.2 and related products. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack on a temporary file, allowing them to create or overwrite arbitrary files. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating local access and low attack complexity are required, with impact limited to partial integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this older vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kirk_bauer:diskcheck:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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