EDB-21043

functional

GNU findutils 4.0/4.1 - Locate Arbitrary Command Execution

view exploit source exploit_dbverifiedtype localauthor Josh Smithpublished 2001-08-01catalog exploit_db

exploited CVEs (1)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2001-1036US	high7.2	0.90% (59th)	Exploit	2001-08-31
GNU locate in findutils 4.1 on Slackware 7.1 and 8.0 allows local users to gain privileges via an old formatted filename database (locatedb) that contains an entry with an out-of-r…

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