VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2001-0609

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability18.23%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2001-08-02
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-193: Off-by-one Error

Primary references