Vulnerabilities > CVE-2000-1074 - Unspecified vulnerability in Netscape Iplanet Ical 2.1

047910
CVSS 10.0 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
low complexity
netscape
critical
exploit available

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Netscape
1

Exploit-Db

descriptionNetscape iCal 2.1 Patch2 iPlanet iCal 'csstart' Vulnerability. CVE-2000-1074. Local exploit for solaris platform
idEDB-ID:20276
last seen2016-02-02
modified2000-10-10
published2000-10-10
reporter@stake
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/20276/
titleNetscape iCal 2.1 Patch2 iPlanet iCal 'csstart' Vulnerability