CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0159

7.5 HIGH Published 2000-02-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-02-17
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

HP Ignite-UX does not save /etc/passwd when it creates an image of a trusted system, which can set the password field to a blank and allow an attacker to gain privileges.

Affected configurations

• hp hp-ux 11.00

References