CVE-2000-0864
Race condition in the creation of a Unix domain socket in GNOME esound 0.2.19 and earlier allows a local user to change the permissions of…
- 6.2MediumCVSS base score
- 0.69%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 47% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Race condition in the creation of a Unix domain socket in GNOME esound 0.2.19 and earlier allows a local user to change the permissions of arbitrary files and directories, and gain additional privileges, via a symlink attack.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- GNOME esound 0.2.19 - Unix Domain Socket Race Condition (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 20212local, unixpublished 31 Aug 2000Verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 24 years later
· 24 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.2 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.69% · top 47% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- 1659 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- gnome-esound-symlink(5213) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- MDKSA-2000:051 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- 20001008 esound: race condition (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2000:077 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 20001012 esound daemon race condition (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FreeBSD-SA-00:45 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDx_transferred
- 20001006 Immunix OS Security Update for esound (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20000911 Patch for esound-0.2.19 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2000-0851 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2000-0864)Record last updated .