HIGH
Buffer overflow in login in various System V based operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a large number of arguments through services such as telnet and rlogin
Published Jun 25, 2002
10.0
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 94.74%
Description
Buffer overflow in login in various System V based operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a large number of arguments through services such as telnet and rlogin.
Affected products
No data.
Configuration 1
Configuration 2
OR
- 10.00
- 10.01
- 10.10
- 10.20
- 10.24
- 11.00
- 11.0.4
- 11.11
- 4.3
- 4.3.1
- 4.3.2
- 4.3.3
- 5.1
- 5.0
- 5.0.1
- 5.0.2
- 5.0.3
- 5.0.4
- 5.0.5
- 5.0.6
- 5.0.6a
- 2.4
- 2.5
- 2.5.1
- 2.5.1
- 2.6
- 7.0
- 8.0
- n/a
- 5.0
- 5.1
- 5.2
- 5.3
- 5.4
- 5.5
- 5.5.1
- 5.7
- 5.8
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
10.0 HIGH NVD
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
94.74% 0.94739
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.94739
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 (18 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 94.74% (0.94739) | 99.86th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 94.74% (0.94739) | 99.85th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 88.73% (0.88726) | 99.76th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 4, 2026 | 84.08% (0.84081) | 99.32th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| May 27, 2026 | 87.26% (0.87260) | 99.47th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Sep 22, 2025 | 88.68% (0.88681) | 99.49th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Sep 14, 2025 | 87.11% (0.87110) | 99.41th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Jun 20, 2025 | 88.63% (0.88625) | 99.46th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| May 3, 2025 | 85.10% (0.85097) | 99.29th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 91.66% (0.91656) | 99.67th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 97.21% (0.97214) | 99.87th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 25, 2024 | 97.21% (0.97214) | 99.83th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 97.24% (0.97236) | 99.82th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 3, 2023 | 97.36% (0.97362) | 99.87th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 23, 2023 | 97.39% (0.97390) | 99.84th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 97.42% (0.97425) | 99.87th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 89.92% (0.89923) | 99.84th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 89.92% (0.89923) | 99.81th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (0)
No CWE recorded.
References (12)
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20011201-01-I vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SGI
- ftp://stage.caldera.com/pub/security/openserver/CSSA-2001-SCO.40/CSSA-2001-SCO.40.txt vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CALDERA
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100844757228307&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/213 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUN
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY26221&apar=only vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
- http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-34.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTPatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/569272 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/246487 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3681 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploitPatchVendor Advisory
- http://xforce.iss.net/alerts/advise105.php third-party-advisoryx_refsource_ISSPatchVendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7284 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2025 vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jun 25, 2002
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Oct 24, 2001
Link CVE-2001-0797
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a