CVE-2000-0005: HP 9000

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

HP-UX aserver program allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• HP 9000: version 7_800 only
• HP Aserver: any version
• HP HP-Ux: version 7.00 only; version 7.02 only; version 7.04 only; version 7.06 only; version 7.08 only; version 8.00 only; …

Published 1999-01-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.