CVE-2001-0289

Publication date

2001-05-07 04:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Joe text editor 2.8 searches the current working directory (CWD) for the .joerc configuration file, which could allow local users to gain privileges of other users by placing a Trojan Horse .joerc file into a directory, then waiting for users to execute joe from that directory.