CVE-2001-0087: Michael Glickman Itetris

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

itetris/xitetris 1.6.2 and earlier trusts the PATH environmental variable to find and execute the gunzip program, which allows local users to gain root privileges by changing their PATH so that it points to a malicious gunzip program.

Affected products

• Michael Glickman Itetris: version 1.6.1 only; version 1.6.2 only

Published 2001-02-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.