CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-1073

7.2 HIGH Published 2000-12-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2000-12-11
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

csstart program in iCal 2.1 Patch 2 searches for the cshttpd program in the current working directory, which allows local users to gain root privileges by creating a Trojan Horse cshttpd program in a directory and calling csstart from that directory.

Affected configurations

• netscape iplanet ical 2.1

References

http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2000/a100900-1.txt Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/7210 www.osvdb.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1769 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5757 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2000/a100900-1.txt Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/7210 www.osvdb.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1769 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5757 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com