CVE-2000-0698: Minicom

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Minicom 1.82.1 and earlier on some Linux systems allows local users to create arbitrary files owned by the uucp user via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Minicom Minicom: version 1.82.0 only; version 1.82.1 only; version 1.83.0 only; version 1.83.1 only

Published 2000-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.