CVE-2001-0178 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the kdesu program within KDE2 (versions prior to 2.2.0-6), affecting products like Caldera, Conectiva, Mandrakesoft, and SuSE. This flaw allows local users to steal passwords due to improper verification of UNIX socket ownership when transmitting passwords. With a low CVSS score of 2.1, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access to achieve a partial impact on confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:caldera:openlinux_edesktop:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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