CVE-2000-0798

highpriority · attend · 51EPSS 0.032 · 88 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

3.21% (88th) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The truncate function in IRIX 6.x does not properly check for privileges when the file is in the xfs file system, which allows local users to delete the contents of arbitrary files.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v2.09highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USLLM-inferredCWE-284USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-20137IRIX 6.2/6.3/6.4 - xfs truncate() Privilege Checkfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
sgi irix= 6.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgi irix= 6.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sgi irix= 6.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2000-10-20modified 2026-06-16

references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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