CVE-2000-0151 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in GNU make, where the utility follows symbolic links when reading a Makefile from standard input. This allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.2 (MEDIUM), indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires high attack complexity and local access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this twenty-four-year-old vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.77.44CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:make:3.77.44:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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