CVE-2000-1074

High CVSS 10

Published 2000-12-11 · last changed 2026-09-23

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2000-1074, 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

csstart program in iCal 2.1 Patch 2 uses relative pathnames to install the libsocket and libnsl libraries, which could allow the icsuser account to gain root privileges by creating a Trojan Horse library in the current or parent directory.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-2000-1074

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