CVE-2000-0433

Medium CVSS 4.6

Published 2000-05-02 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2000-0433, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

The SuSE aaa_base package installs some system accounts with home directories set to /tmp, which allows local users to gain privileges to those accounts by creating standard user startup scripts such as profiles.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-2000-0433

CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P