CVE Catalog

CVE-2000-0230

High
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.92%

55th percentile - higher than 55% of all known CVEs

Summary

Buffer overflow in imwheel allows local users to gain root privileges via the imwheel-solo script and a long HOME environmental variable.

Risk Assessment

Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to unauthorized access to the system with administrator privileges, posing a serious security threat to the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to limit the length of the HOME environmental variable and update imwheel to the latest version to minimize risk.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in imwheel allows local users to gain root privileges via the imwheel-solo script and a long HOME environmental variable.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS