Vulnerability in Sun Sunos

CVE-2001-0699

Buffer overflow in cb_reset in the System Service Processor (SSP) package of SunOS 5.8 allows a local user to execute arbitrary code via a long argument.

Published 2001-09-20 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (37.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 37th percentile — 37.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Sun Sunos — versions 5.8

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/2893 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/192299 (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6726 (vdb-entry)