National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2000-0248
Orirignal release date: 2000-04-24
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    The web GUI for the Linux Virtual Server (LVS) software in the Red Hat Linux Piranha package has a backdoor passowrd that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 10 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: config
    Impact Type: sec_prot admin="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Red Hat Linux (Red Hat)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2000-0248