Vulnerability Report

CVE-2001-0891

Title: NQE nqsdaemon format string vulnerability in qsub batch job name

Privilege escalation

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2001-0891.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jan 31, 2002

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.05%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2001-0891: Format string vulnerability in NQS daemon (nqsdaemon) in NQE 3.3.0.16 for CRAY UNICOS and SGI IRIX allows a local user to gain root privileges by using qsub to submit a batch job whose name contains formatting characters.

Impacted Vendors

sgi 1

Reference Links

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20020101-01-I http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100695627423924&w=2 http://www.osvdb.org/3275 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3590 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7618 ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20020101-01-I http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100695627423924&w=2 http://www.osvdb.org/3275 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3590 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7618

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-2001-0891 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.

January 31, 2002 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.