CVE-2000-1220
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 14.2%EU EUVD
The line printer daemon (lpd) in the lpr package in multiple Linux operating systems allows local users to gain root privileges by causing sendmail to execute with arbitrary command line arguments, as demonstrated using the -C option to specify a configuration file.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- EPSS score
- 14.2% (97th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2000-1202)
- Published
- January 8, 2000
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2000-1202 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 8, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- redhat / linux
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
- sgi / irix
Certified products that may be affected
5 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel Crypto API Cryptographic Module v4.0 with CPACF - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2798 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel Crypto API Cryptographic Module v4.0 - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2742 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Libreswan Cryptographic Module v4.0 - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2721 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux NSS Cryptographic Module v4.0 - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2711 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux libgcrypt Cryptographic Module v4.0 [1] and Red Hat Enterprise Linux libgcrypt Cryptographic Module v5.0 [2] - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2657 - historical
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20021104-01-P
- http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2000/Jan/0116.html
- http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2000/lpd_advisory.txt
- http://www.debian.org/security/2000/20000109
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/39001(US Government Resource)
- http://www.l0pht.com/advisories/lpd_advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-002.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/927
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/3841
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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