CVE-2000-0393

high

Description

The KDE kscd program does not drop privileges when executing a program specified in a user's SHELL environmental variable, which allows the user to gain privileges by specifying an alternate program to execute.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1206

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_50.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0172.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2000-05-16

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H