CVE-2001-0573 — lsfs in AIX 4.x allows a local user to gain additional privileges by creating Trojan horse programs named (1) grep or (2) lslv in a certain directory that is under the user's control, which cause lsfs to access the programs in that directory

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lsfs in AIX 4.x allows a local user to gain additional privileges by creating Trojan horse programs named (1) grep or (2) lslv in a certain directory that is under the user's control, which cause lsfs to access the programs in that directory

Published Mar 9, 2002

4.6

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.48%

Description

lsfs in AIX 4.x allows a local user to gain additional privileges by creating Trojan horse programs named (1) grep or (2) lslv in a certain directory that is under the user's control, which cause lsfs to access the programs in that directory.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.48% 0.00476

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

EPSS probability 0.00476

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 (10 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.48% (0.00476)	38.83th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.48% (0.00476)	37.19th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.08% (0.00077)	20.57th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00043)	11.55th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00043)	9.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00043)	7.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.95% (0.00950)	32.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	30.63th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	28.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	13.46th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/aix/2001-q2/0000.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARExploitPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/123651
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
http://www.osvdb.org/5582
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7007
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/aix/2001-q2/0000.html		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARExploitPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/123651		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
http://www.osvdb.org/5582		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7007		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Mar 9, 2002

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Jul 27, 2001

Link CVE-2001-0573

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2001-0573

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2001-0573