Improper Privilege Management Affecting nethack package, versions <3.6.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-NETHACK-559639
  • published10 Mar 2020
  • disclosed10 Mar 2020

Introduced: 10 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-5253  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-184  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable nethack to version 3.6.0-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nethack package and not the nethack package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1