CVE-2000-1125: Red Hat Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

restore 0.4b15 and earlier in Red Hat Linux 6.2 trusts the pathname specified by the RSH environmental variable, which allows local users to obtain root privileges by modifying the RSH variable to point to a Trojan horse program.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 6.2 only; version 6.2e only

Published 2001-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.