CVE-2001-0079 — Support Tools Manager (STM) A.22.00 for HP-UX allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the tool_stat.txt log file

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Support Tools Manager (STM) A.22.00 for HP-UX allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the tool_stat.txt log file

Published Feb 2, 2001

2.1

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.52%

Description

Support Tools Manager (STM) A.22.00 for HP-UX allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the tool_stat.txt log file.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.52% 0.00518

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00518

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.52% (0.00518)	41.88th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.52% (0.00518)	39.66th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.27% (0.00273)	48.71th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (1)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-12/0174.html
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-12/0174.html		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Feb 2, 2001

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Feb 1, 2001

Link CVE-2001-0079

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2001-0079

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2001-0079