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HP-UX Kermit Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The HP-UX implementation of Kermit has been reported prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.

The issue can be exploited by a local attacker to achieve elevated privileges.

This issue has been reported to affect HP9000 Series 700/800 that are running HP-UX releases 10.20 and 11.00. Other versions are not known to be affected.