Privilege escalation in NetHack
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 3.9epss 0.5%
exploitation probability
0.5%top 56% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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 · NetHack