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critical 10.0

CVE-2000-1220 in the critical feed json

The line printer daemon (lpd) in the lpr package in multiple Linux operating systems allows local users to gain root privileges by causing…

published 2000-01-08 26 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2000-1202

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
14.2%
EPSS 14.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The line printer daemon (lpd) in the lpr package in multiple Linux operating systems allows local users to gain root privileges by causing sendmail to execute with arbitrary command line arguments, as demonstrated using the -C option to specify a configuration file.

Patch / fix

  • lpr Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:0.48-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2000-1220

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2000-1220 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-325)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

14.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-325 BSD / Linux - 'lpr' Local Privilege Escalation local, 1996-10-25

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.