CVE-2003-0489

2003-06-2804:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

tcptraceroute

privilege escalation

vulnerability

file descriptor

local users

AI Score

6.4

Confidence

Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

tcptraceroute 1.4 and earlier does not fully drop privileges after obtaining a file descriptor for capturing packets, which may allow local users to gain access to the descriptor via a separate vulnerability in tcptraceroute.

References

www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-330