CVE-2000-0723 — Helix GNOME Updater helix-update 0.5 and earlier does not properly create /tmp directories, which allows local users to create empty system configuration files such as /etc/config.d/bashrc, /etc/config.d/csh.cshrc, and /etc/rc.config

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Helix GNOME Updater helix-update 0.5 and earlier does not properly create /tmp directories, which allows local users to create empty system configuration files such as /etc/config.d/bashrc, /etc/config.d/csh.cshrc, and /etc/rc.config

Published Sep 21, 2000

1.2

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.30%

Description

Helix GNOME Updater helix-update 0.5 and earlier does not properly create /tmp directories, which allows local users to create empty system configuration files such as /etc/config.d/bashrc, /etc/config.d/csh.cshrc, and /etc/rc.config.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.30% 0.00301

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00301

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 (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.30% (0.00301)	20.69th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.30% (0.00301)	21.57th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00063)	16.81th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0251.html
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1596
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=E13QAYl-0007il-00%40the-village.bc.nu
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0251.html		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1596		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=E13QAYl-0007il-00%40the-village.bc.nu		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 21, 2000

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Sep 19, 2000

Link CVE-2000-0723

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2000-0723

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2000-0723