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CVE-2000-0864
Race condition in the creation of a Unix domain socket in GNOME esound 0.2.19 and earlier allows a local user to change the permissions of…
Medium6.2EPSS 0.69%
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- mitre
Description
Race condition in the creation of a Unix domain socket in GNOME esound 0.2.19 and earlier allows a local user to change the permissions of arbitrary files and directories, and gain additional privileges, via a symlink attack.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.2 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.69% · top 47% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.2.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (9)
- 1659 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- gnome-esound-symlink(5213) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- MDKSA-2000:051 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- 20001008 esound: race condition (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2000:077 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 20001012 esound daemon race condition (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FreeBSD-SA-00:45 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDx_transferred
- 20001006 Immunix OS Security Update for esound (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20000911 Patch for esound-0.2.19 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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