security flaw
Published Oct 13, 2000
10.0
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 11.40%
Description
The "capabilities" feature in Linux before 2.2.16 allows local users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges by setting the capabilities to prevent a setuid program from dropping privileges, aka the "Linux kernel setuid/setcap vulnerability."
Affected products
No data.
- 2.0
- 2.0.30
- 2.0.33
- 2.0.34
- 2.0.35
- 2.0.36
- 2.0.37
- 2.0.38
- 2.1
- 2.2.0
- 2.2.10
- 2.2.12
- 2.2.13
- 2.2.14
- 2.2.15
- 2.2.15
- 2.2.15_pre20
- 2.2.16
- 2.2.16
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
Red Hat statement
This issue was fixed in the following products: - Red Hat Linux 6.0 - RHSA-2000:037 (2000-06-20) - Red Hat Linux 6.1 - RHSA-2000:037 (2000-06-20) - Red Hat Linux 6.2 - RHSA-2000:037 (2000-06-20)
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (10 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 11.40% (0.11396) | 95.87th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 11.40% (0.11396) | 95.43th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jan 5, 2026 | 4.37% (0.04368) | 88.59th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 2.60% (0.02600) | 84.59th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.40% (0.00396) | 74.31th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 0.40% (0.00396) | 72.78th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.53% (0.00527) | 73.40th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 5.00% (0.05005) | 89.53th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 5.00% (0.05005) | 88.48th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 5.00% (0.05005) | 75.00th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
No CWE recorded.
References (10)
- ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/security/20000802-01-P vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SGI
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0062.html mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0063.html mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-037.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1322 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=Pine.LNX.4.21.0006090852340.3475-300000%40alfa.elzabsoft.pl mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2000-0506 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1616485 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0506
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2000-0506
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/security/20000802-01-P | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SGI | |
| http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0062.html | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ | |
| http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0063.html | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ | |
| http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-037.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1322 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=Pine.LNX.4.21.0006090852340.3475-300000%40alfa.elzabsoft.pl | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2000-0506 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1616485 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0506 | ||
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2000-0506 |
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