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CVE-2000-1137

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-1137 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in GNU ed before version 0.2-18.1. An attacker can exploit this flaw by using a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files belonging to other users on the system. With a CVSS score of 4.6 (Medium), this vulnerability requires local access and low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ed:2.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.16trCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ed:2.16tr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ed:2.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.18.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ed:2.18.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 3,048 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 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 5.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 6.0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 6.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 6.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.0
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2000-1137

security flaw

Nov 29, 2000

References

distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/5723
debian.org / security/2000/20001129
linux-mandrake.com / en/security/MDKSA-2000-076.php3
osvdb.org / 6491
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2000-123.html
PatchVendor Advisory