CVE-2001-0087 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in itetris/xitetris versions 1.6.2 and earlier. The software insecurely trusts the PATH environment variable to locate and execute the gunzip program, allowing a local attacker to gain root privileges by manipulating their PATH to point to a malicious gunzip executable. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), indicating a low attack complexity and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the KEV catalog, an exploit is available on ExploitDB, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:michael_glickman:itetris:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:michael_glickman:itetris:1.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.