CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0393

7.2 HIGH Published 2000-05-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-05-16
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 KDE kscd program does not drop privileges when executing a program specified in a user's SHELL environmental variable, which allows the user to gain privileges by specifying an alternate program to execute.

Affected configurations

• kde kde 1.1 • kde kde 1.1.1 • kde kde 1.2 • kde kde 2.0 beta

References