CVE-2000-0118

N/A

Published: February 8, 2000 at 05:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:51 PM UTC

3 products affected across 3 vendorsSolarisSunosLinux

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.8%

Description

The Red Hat Linux su program does not log failed password guesses if the su process is killed before it times out, which allows local attackers to conduct brute force password guessing.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Solaris · Oraclerubygems

95%

1.1.3 u1 1.1.4 2.4

Linux · Red Hat

95%

2.0 2.1 3.0.3 4.0 4.1 4.2 5.0 5.1 5.2 6.0 6.1

Sunos · Sun

95%

4.1.3 4.1.4 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Source: [email protected]

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=94935300520617&w=2

CVSS

7.2HIGH[email protected]

Confidentiality: COMPLETE
Integrity: COMPLETE
Availability: COMPLETE

Vector?

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StatusMODIFIED

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

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