What is CVE-2001-0609?

CVE-2001-0609 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Infodrom Cfingerd, classified under Off-by-one Error. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2001-08-02.

How severe is CVE-2001-0609?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Infodrom Cfingerd

CVE-2001-0609

Format string vulnerability in Infodrom cfingerd 1.4.3 and earlier allows a remote attacker to gain additional privileges via a malformed ident reply that is passed to the syslog function.

EPSS: 0.182 (96.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Infodrom Cfingerd
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-193 — Off-by-one Error

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Broken Link, Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Patch)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2001-0609?: CVE-2001-0609 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Infodrom Cfingerd, classified under Off-by-one Error. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2001-08-02.
How severe is CVE-2001-0609?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.