CVE
- Id
- 1797
- CVE No.
- CVE-2000-0219
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- Red Hat 6.0 allows local users to gain root access by booting single user and hitting ^C at the password prompt.
- Phase
- Modified (20141101)
- Votes
- ACCEPT(4) Armstrong, Cole, Levy, Ozancin | MODIFY(1) Frech | NOOP(4) Baker, Blake, LeBlanc, Wall | REVIEWING(1) Christey
- Comments
- Ozancin> We need an additional CVE entry for other distributions that simply drop you | into a root shell in single user mode. | Christey> Based on Craig"s comments, need to consider if this is an LOA | issue. | Frech> XF:redhat-single-user-auth(4026)