CVE-2000-0701 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Mailman versions 2.0beta3 and 2.0beta4, where the wrapper program fails to properly sanitize untrusted format strings. This flaw primarily affects Linux distributions running these specific Mailman versions. With a CVSS score of 4.6 (Medium), it requires local access (AV:L) and low attack complexity (AC:L) to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:P/I:P/A:P). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:conectiva:linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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