CVE Catalog

CVE-2000-0901

Medium
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.97%

60th percentile - higher than 60% of all known CVEs

Summary

Format string vulnerability in screen 3.9.5 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via format characters in the vbell_msg initialization variable.

Risk Assessment

A local user can gain full root privileges, leading to complete system compromise and the ability to perform any action.

Recommendation

Update screen to a version later than 3.9.5 that fixes this format string vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Format string vulnerability in screen 3.9.5 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via format characters in the vbell_msg initialization variable.

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