CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0873

7.2 HIGH Published 2001-12-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-12-21
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

uuxqt in Taylor UUCP package does not properly remove dangerous long options, which allows local users to gain privileges by calling uux and specifying an alternate configuration file with the --config option.

Affected configurations

• ian lance taylor taylor uucp 1.0.6

References