CVE-2020-5253: low-severity vulnerability in NetHack
Privilege escalation in NetHack
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8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 3.9epss 0.5%
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:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Affected products
NetHack · NetHackRelated CVEs — NetHack
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2020-5254LOWNetHack hilite_status parsing privilege escalationEPSS 1.1%CVE-2020-5211MEDIUMNetHack AUTOCOMPLETE configuration file option is subject to a buffer overflowEPSS 1.1%CVE-2020-5214MEDIUMNetHack error recovery after syntax error in configuration file is subject to a buffer overflowEPSS 1.1%CVE-2020-5212MEDIUMNetHack MENUCOLOR configuration file option is subject to a buffer overflowEPSS 1.1%CVE-2020-5213MEDIUMNetHack SYMBOL configuration file option is subject to a buffer overflowEPSS 1.1%CVE-2020-5209MEDIUMNetHack command line parsing of options starting with -de and -i is subject to a buffer overflowEPSS 0.8%