CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0787

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2001-10-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-10-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

LPRng in Red Hat Linux 7.0 and 7.1 does not properly drop memberships in supplemental groups when lowering privileges, which could allow a local user to elevate privileges.

Affected configurations

• redhat linux 7.0 • redhat linux 7.1

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-271 Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors weakness

References