Vulnerability CVE-2020-5253
Published: 2020-03-10

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-269

 (Improper Privilege Management)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Nethack -> Nethack 

 References:
https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/commits/612755bfb5c412079795c68ba392df5d93874ed8
https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/security/advisories/GHSA-2c7p-3fj4-223m
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