CVE-2000-1009 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the dump utility within Red Hat Linux 6.2 and Trustix Linux. The dump program insecurely trusts the RSH environmental variable, allowing a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.2 (HIGH), indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local access, but leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit code for this specific vulnerability is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:trustix:secure_linux:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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