Description
The CVS 1.10.8 server does not properly restrict users from creating arbitrary Checkin.prog or Update.prog programs, which allows remote CVS committers to modify or create Trojan horse programs with the Checkin.prog or Update.prog names, then performing a CVS commit action.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Access Vector
- local
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- complete
- Integrity
- complete
- Availability
- complete
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- CVS
- Published
- 10/20/2000
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
cvs : cvs
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