CVE-2000-1125

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: 2001-01-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

restore 0.4b15 and earlier in Red Hat Linux 6.2 trusts the pathname specified by the RSH environmental variable, which allows local users to obtain root privileges by modifying the RSH variable to point to a Trojan horse program.

Affected products

RedHat Linux: 6.2, 6.2e

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=97336034309944&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1914
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=97336034309944&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1914

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