Vulnerability Report

CVE-2001-0577

Title: SCO OpenServer recon long argument buffer overflow

Privilege escalation

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2001-0577

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 22, 2001

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.58%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2001-0577: recon in SCO OpenServer 5.0 through 5.0.6 can allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a buffer overflow attack in the first command line argument.

Impacted Vendors

caldera 1

sco 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-03/0410.html http://security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-200104/0221.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6289 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-03/0410.html http://security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-200104/0221.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6289

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2001-0577 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20742

View Code

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 22, 2001 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.