CVE-2000-0052 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Red Hat userhelper program within the usermode package, affecting various Linux distributions including Red Hat, Mandrake, and Turbolinux. This flaw allows local users to gain root access through a Path Traversal (dot dot) attack leveraging PAM. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires no authentication, enabling a complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no indication of active exploitation or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:6.0:*:i386:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:6.1:*:i386:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.5b2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:turbolinux:turbolinux:3.5b2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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