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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

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.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 18.2%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 18.2%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

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.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
18.23% probability · 97th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-193
Affected
infodrom/cfingerd
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.