Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2001-0667
Internet Explorer 6 and earlier, when used with the Telnet client in Services for Unix (SFU) 2.0, allows remote attackers to execute commands by spawning Telnet with a log file option on the command line and writing arbitrary code into an executable file which is later executed, aka a new variant of the Telnet Invocation vulnerability as described in CVE-2001-0150.
EPSS: 0.147 (96.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.3 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (government-resource, Broken Link, x_refsource_CIAC, third-party-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2001-0667?
- CVE-2001-0667 is a high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, classified under Argument Injection. CVSS score: 7.3/10. Published 2001-10-30.
- How severe is CVE-2001-0667?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.3 out of 10.