Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 3 public exploits for CVE-2000-0530. PoCs published by IhaQueR, kil3r.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a vulnerability in KDE's configuration-file management (CVE-2000-0530) to perform a local privilege escalation. It manipulates symbolic links and file ownership to gain root access by modifying the /etc/passwd file and creating a setuid root shell.
Description
The KApplication class in the KDE 1.1.2 configuration file management capability allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files.
Exploits (3)
This exploit leverages a vulnerability in KDE's configuration-file management (CVE-2000-0530) to perform a local privilege escalation. It manipulates symbolic links and file ownership to gain root access by modifying the /etc/passwd file and creating a setuid root shell.
This exploit leverages a race condition in KDE's configuration file management (CVE-2000-0530) to hijack file ownership via symlink attacks. It compiles a malicious shared library to escalate privileges and spawns a root shell by manipulating `ld.so.preload`.
This exploit leverages a vulnerability in KDE's configuration-file management (CVE-2000-0530) to achieve local privilege escalation. It manipulates the creation of configuration files via the KApplication class, allowing an attacker to change ownership of arbitrary files and ultimately gain a root shell.