Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in expect before 5.32

CVE-2001-1374 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

expect before 5.32 searches for its libraries in /var/tmp before other directories, which could allow local users to gain root privileges via a Trojan horse library that is accessed by mkpasswd.

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