CVE-2000-1220
The line printer daemon (lpd) in the lpr package in multiple Linux operating systems allows local users to gain root privileges by causing sendmail to execute with arbitrary command line arguments, as
02 Description
The line printer daemon (lpd) in the lpr package in multiple Linux operating systems allows local users to gain root privileges by causing sendmail to execute with arbitrary command line arguments, as
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 14.21% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-04-21 04:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 05:45Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-04-21
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 4f55958823a252f488c0526f69e1ab5a574f2c67e9406c674a98fe6dd26ed477
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.debian.org20000109 lpr -- access control problem and root exploithttp://www.debian.org/security/2000/20000109
- seclists.org20000108 L0pht Advisory: LPD, RH 4.x,5.x,6.xhttp://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2000/Jan/0116.html
- www.securityfocus.com927http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/927
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comredhat-lpd-print-control(3841)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/3841
- patches.sgi.com20021104-01-Pftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20021104-01-P
- www.l0pht.com20000108 Quadruple Inverted Backfliphttp://www.l0pht.com/advisories/lpd_advisory
- www.kb.cert.orgVU#39001http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/39001
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2000:002http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-002.html
- www.atstake.comhttp://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2000/lpd_advisory.txt
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- lpr Fixed in 1:0.48-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- lpr Fixed in 1:0.48-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- lpr Fixed in 1:0.48-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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