CVE-2000-1125 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in restore 0.4b15 and earlier within Red Hat Linux 6.2. The restore utility insecurely trusts the RSH environmental variable, allowing a local attacker to define a malicious program as RSH. This flaw carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.2, indicating that an attacker can achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, and it has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 86/100.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.2eCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:6.2e:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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