CVE-2000-0722

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2000-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Helix GNOME Updater helix-update 0.5 and earlier allows local users to install arbitrary RPM packages by creating the /tmp/helix-install installation directory before root has begun installing packages.

Affected products

Helix Code Gnome Updater: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0240.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0251.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1593
http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=E13QAYl-0007il-00%40the-village.bc.nu
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0240.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0251.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1593
http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=E13QAYl-0007il-00%40the-village.bc.nu

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