CVE-2000-0722: Helix Code Gnome Updater

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Helix GNOME Updater helix-update 0.5 and earlier allows local users to install arbitrary RPM packages by creating the /tmp/helix-install installation directory before root has begun installing packages.

Affected products

• Helix Code Gnome Updater: version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only

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