CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0172

7.2 HIGH Published 2000-03-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-03-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The mtr program only uses a seteuid call when attempting to drop privileges, which could allow local users to gain root privileges.

Affected configurations

• matt kimball and roger wolff mtr 0.28 • matt kimball and roger wolff mtr 0.41 • turbolinux turbolinux 3.5b2 • turbolinux turbolinux 4.2 • turbolinux turbolinux 4.4 • turbolinux turbolinux 6.0.2

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-271 Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors weakness

References