CVE-2000-1213

High CVSS 7.5

Published 2000-10-18 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2000-1213, 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

ping in iputils before 20001010, as distributed on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7J and other operating systems, does not drop privileges after acquiring a raw socket, which increases ping's exposure to bugs that otherwise would occur at lower privileges.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-2000-1213

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