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CVE-2000-0948

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-0948 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in GnoRPM versions prior to 0.95, affecting the gnome gnorpm product. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack to modify arbitrary files on the system. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), indicating that a local attacker with low complexity can achieve complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.94CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnorpm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 42nd percentile among its peer group of 3,241 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2000-0948

security flaw

Oct 2, 2000

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0043.html
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0184.html
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/5317
linux-mandrake.com / en/security/MDKSA-2000-055.php3
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2000-072.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/136866
securityfocus.com / bid/1761
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