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CVE-2000-0703
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2000-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Description
suidperl (aka sperl) does not properly cleanse the escape sequence "~!" before calling /bin/mail to send an error report, which allows local users to gain privileges by setting the "interactive" environmental variable and calling suidperl with a filename that contains the escape sequence.
Affected products
- Larry Wall Perl: 5.4.5, 5.5, 5.5.3, 5.6
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0022.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0086.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0113.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0153.html
- http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-026.0.txt
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_59.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-048.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1547
- http://www.turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-August/000017.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0022.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0086.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0113.html
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