Vulnerability Report

CVE-2000-1213

Title: ping does not drop privileges after raw socket acquisition

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2000-1213.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 18, 2000

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.93%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2000-1213: ping in iputils before 20001010, as distributed on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7J and other operating systems, does not drop privileges after acquiring a raw socket, which increases ping's exposure to bugs that otherwise would occur at lower privileges.

Impacted Vendors

immunix 1

iputils 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0429.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=97249980727834&w=2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-087.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0429.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=97249980727834&w=2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-087.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2000-1213 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 18, 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:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.