CVE-2000-0691

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2000-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The faxrunq and faxrunqd in the mgetty package allows local users to create or modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack which creates a symlink in from /var/spool/fax/outgoing/.last_run to the target file.

Affected products

Gert Doering Mgetty: 1.1.19, 1.1.20, 1.1.21

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0329.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0330.html
http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-029.0.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1612
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0329.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0330.html
http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-029.0.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1612

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