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CVE-2000-0724

• 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

The go-gnome Helix GNOME pre-installer allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on various files in /tmp, including uudecode, snarf, and some installer files.

Affected products

• Helix Code Go-Gnome Pre-Installer: 1.5

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0351.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0356.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1622
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0351.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0356.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1622

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