{"id":"CVE-2000-0724","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2000-0724","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:51:25.484Z","title":"The go-gnome Helix GNOME pre-installer allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on various files in /tmp, including uudecode, snarf, and some installer files.","description":"The go-gnome Helix GNOME pre-installer allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on various files in /tmp, including uudecode, snarf, and some installer files.","published":"2000-10-20T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T21:52:21.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":6.2,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"},"cwe":[],"affected":["helix code/go-gnome pre-installer"],"epss":{"score":0.00307,"percentile":0.2333,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.31%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0351.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0356.html","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1622","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0351.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0356.html","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1622","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0724","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}