CVE-2001-1179 — xman allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the MANPATH to point to a man page whose filename contains shell metacharacters

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HIGH

xman allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the MANPATH to point to a man page whose filename contains shell metacharacters

Published Mar 15, 2002

7.2

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.44%

Description

xman allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the MANPATH to point to a man page whose filename contains shell metacharacters.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.44% 0.00442

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

EPSS probability 0.00442

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	0.44% (0.00442)	36.08th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.44% (0.00442)	34.98th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00060)	15.88th	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://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/197498
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploit

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/197498		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploit

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Mar 15, 2002

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Mar 15, 2002

Link CVE-2001-1179

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2001-1179

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2001-1179