CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0803

10.0 HIGH Published 2000-12-19 Modified 2026-09-23 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-12-19
Last modified
2026-09-23
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

GNU Groff uses the current working directory to find a device description file, which allows a local user to gain additional privileges by including a malicious postpro directive in the description file, which is executed when another user runs groff.

Affected configurations

• gnu groff (< 1.17)

References