Vulnerability Report

CVE-2001-0579

Title: lpadmin buffer overflow local privilege escalation

Privilege escalation

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2001-0579

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 22, 2001

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.47%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2001-0579: lpadmin in SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 can allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a buffer overflow attack in the first argument to the command.

Impacted Vendors

caldera 1

sco 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-03/0421.html http://security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-200104/0221.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6291 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-03/0421.html http://security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-200104/0221.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6291

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2001-0579 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20735

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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.