Vulnerability Report

CVE-2000-1074

Title: csstart relative library path allows Trojan library execution

Privilege escalation

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2000-1074

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 11, 2000

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Available

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

7.05%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2000-1074: csstart program in iCal 2.1 Patch 2 uses relative pathnames to install the libsocket and libnsl libraries, which could allow the icsuser account to gain root privileges by creating a Trojan Horse library in the current or parent directory.

Impacted Vendors

netscape 1

Reference Links

http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2000/a100900-1.txt http://www.osvdb.org/7209 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1769 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5757 http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2000/a100900-1.txt http://www.osvdb.org/7209 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1769 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5757

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2000-1074 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20276

View Code

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 11, 2000 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.