CVE-2000-1125

highpriority · track · 39EPSS 0.011 · 66 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

3 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

1.11% (66th) EPSS

CVSS 7.2 · high

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

restore 0.4b15 and earlier in Red Hat Linux 6.2 trusts the pathname specified by the RSH environmental variable, which allows local users to obtain root privileges by modifying the RSH variable to point to a Trojan horse program.

cvss

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

7.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–7.2

v2.07.2highAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 10

v2.06.5mediumAV:L/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-20USLLM-inferredCWE-284USLLM-inferred

exploits (3)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-182RedHat 6.2 - '/sbin/restore' Local Privilege Escalationfunctional · exploit_db
EDB-184RedHat 6.2 Restore and Dump - Local Privilege Escalationfunctional · exploit_db
EDB-20385RedHat 0.4 b15 restore - Insecure Environment Variablesfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
redhat linux= 6.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat linux= 6.2envdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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 2001-01-09modified 2026-06-16

references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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