CVE-2000-0948 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in GnoRPM versions prior to 0.95, affecting the gnome gnorpm product. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack to modify arbitrary files on the system. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), indicating that a local attacker with low complexity can achieve complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.94CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnorpm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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