CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-1103

7.2 HIGH Published 2001-01-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-01-09
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

rcvtty in BSD 3.0 and 4.0 does not properly drop privileges before executing a script, which allows local attackers to gain privileges by specifying an alternate Trojan horse script on the command line.

Affected configurations

• bsdi bsd os 3.0 • bsdi bsd os 3.1 • bsdi bsd os 4.0 • bsdi bsd os 4.0.1

References