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CVE-2000-0393

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2000-05-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The KDE kscd program does not drop privileges when executing a program specified in a user's SHELL environmental variable, which allows the user to gain privileges by specifying an alternate program to execute.

Affected products

• Kde: 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2, 2.0_beta

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0172.html
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_50.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1206
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0172.html
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_50.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1206

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