CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0609

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2001-08-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-08-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-193

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• infodrom cfingerd (<= 1.4.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-193 Off-by-one Error weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-193 Off-by-one Error weakness

References