Vulnerability Report

CVE-2001-1442

Title: innfeed -c buffer overflow allows local news group privilege escalation

Privilege escalation

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2001-1442

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Apr 21, 2001

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.44%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2001-1442: Buffer overflow in innfeed for ISC InterNetNews (INN) before 2.3.0 allows local users in the "news" group to gain privileges via a long -c command line argument.

Impacted Vendors

inn 1

isc 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-04/0311.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1001353 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/943536 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/178011 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2620 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6398 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-04/0311.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1001353 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/943536 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/178011 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2620 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6398

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-2001-1442 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20777

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Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20778

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April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 21, 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.