CVE-2020-5253
Privilege escalation in NetHack
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 3.9 Low
- Published
- Mar 10, 2020
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 2, 2020
Description
NetHack before version 3.6.0 allowed malicious use of escaping of characters in the configuration file (usually .nethackrc) which could be exploited. This bug is patched in NetHack 3.6.0.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 3.9 Low | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-184 Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
NetHackNetHack |
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References
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