CVE-2000-0715

LOW 2.1CVE-2000-0715 · Published 20/10/2000 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2000-0715 is a LOW (CVSS 2.1) vulnerability affecting diskcheck (kirk bauer).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.41%, higher than 36.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
diskcheck kirk_bauer	`= 3.1.1`	No fix yet

Description

DiskCheck script diskcheck.pl in Red Hat Linux 6.2 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

References

seclists.org/bugtraq/2000/Aug/0082.html
seclists.org/bugtraq/2000/Aug/0096.html
seclists.org/bugtraq/2000/Jun/0298.html
securityfocus.com/bid/1552 · Patch

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