Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2001-0823. PoCs published by IhaQueR.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a symbolic link vulnerability in the setuid root binary 'pmpost' from Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) to overwrite /etc/passwd and gain root privileges. It creates a malicious entry in the passwd file by abusing the PCP_LOG_DIR environment variable.
Description
The pmpost program in Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) before 2.2.1-3 allows a local user to gain privileges via a symlink attack on the NOTICES file in the PCP log directory (PCP_LOG_DIR).
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a symbolic link vulnerability in the setuid root binary 'pmpost' from Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) to overwrite /etc/passwd and gain root privileges. It creates a malicious entry in the passwd file by abusing the PCP_LOG_DIR environment variable.