CVE-2001-1374: Conectiva Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

expect before 5.32 searches for its libraries in /var/tmp before other directories, which could allow local users to gain root privileges via a Trojan horse library that is accessed by mkpasswd.

Affected products

• Conectiva Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Don Libes Expect: version 0 only; version 1 only; version 2 only; version 3 only; version 4 only; version 5.0 only; …
• Red Hat Linux: version 7.0 only

Published 2001-07-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.