CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-5253

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2020-03-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-03-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
3.9 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-184, CWE-269

Description

NetHack before version 3.6.0 allowed malicious use of escaping of characters in the configuration file (usually .nethackrc) which could be exploited. This bug is patched in NetHack 3.6.0.

Affected configurations

• nethack nethack (< 3.6.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-184 Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References