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CVE-2000-0728

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2000-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

xpdf PDF viewer client earlier than 0.91 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Xpdf: 0.90

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=96766355023239&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=96886599829687&w=2
• http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-031.0.txt
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-060.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1624
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=96766355023239&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=96886599829687&w=2
• http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-031.0.txt
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-060.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1624

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