CVE-2020-5254: low-severity vulnerability in NetHack
NetHack hilite_status parsing privilege escalation
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8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 3.9epss 1.1%
In NetHack before 3.6.6, some out-of-bound values for the hilite_status option can be exploited. NetHack 3.6.6 resolves this issue.
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.
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