EDB-20256

functional

OpenBSD 2.x - 'fstat' Format String

view exploit source exploit_dbverifiedtype localauthor K2published 2000-10-04catalog exploit_db

exploited CVEs (1)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2000-0994US	high7.2	1.40% (72nd)	Exploit	2000-12-19
Format string vulnerability in OpenBSD fstat program (and possibly other BSD-based operating systems) allows local users to gain root privileges via the PWD environmental variable.

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