4.6Medium
Carnegie Mellon University Cyrus-Sasl
CVE-2000-0956
cyrus-sasl before 1.5.24 in Red Hat Linux 7.0 does not properly verify the authorization for a local user, which could allow the users to bypass specified access restrictions.
What this means for your business
- It affects Carnegie Mellon University Cyrus-Sasl. It matters if your company, or a supplier that handles your data, runs it.
- An attacker can use it only with access to the machine itself.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.4% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 32% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Check whether your company or your suppliers run Carnegie Mellon University Cyrus-Sasl, and which version. The affected versions are listed further down this page.
- 2If you do, apply the vendor's fix. A patch or vendor advisory has been published.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 4.6 (v2.0)
- Vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Assigned by
- cve@mitre.org
Dates
- Published
- 2000-12-19
- Last modified
- 2026-09-23
- Sources
- NVD
Affected products
- Carnegie Mellon University Cyrus-Sasl1.5.24
As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.