Vulnerability Report

CVE-2001-0588

Title: SCO OpenServer sendmail buffer overflow in MMDF package allows privilege escalation

Privilege escalation

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2001-0588.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 22, 2001

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.10%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2001-0588: sendmail 8.9.3, as included with the MMDF 2.43.3b package in SCO OpenServer 5.0.6, can allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a buffer overflow in the first argument to the command.

Impacted Vendors

sco 1

caldera 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-03/0417.html http://security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-200104/0221.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-03/0417.html http://security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-200104/0221.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2001-0588 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

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:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.