CVE-2000-0728 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in xpdf PDF viewer clients prior to version 0.91. An attacker could exploit this flaw using a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files on the system. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.2, indicating a significant impact with full confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise possible, requiring local access and low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.90CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xpdf:xpdf:0.90:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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