CVE-2001-0570 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

minicom 1.83.1 and earlier allows a local attacker to gain additional privileges via numerous format string attacks.

Published: 2001-07-27

Score: 7.2 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:minicom:minicom:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Linux 5.2
	cpe:/o:redhat:linux:5.2	RHSA-2001:067	2001-05-10T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Linux 6.2
	cpe:/o:redhat:linux:6.2	RHSA-2001:067	2001-05-10T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Linux 7.0
	cpe:/o:redhat:linux:7.0	RHSA-2001:067	2001-05-10T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Linux 7.1
	cpe:/o:redhat:linux:7.1	RHSA-2001:067	2001-05-10T00:00:00Z

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2001-0562	minicom 1.83.1 and earlier allows a local attacker to gain additional privileges via numerous format string attacks.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00047.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99014300904714&w=2
http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2001-016.0.txt
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-067.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/181922
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6498
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2001-0570
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2001-0570

History

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Subscriptions

Minicom Minicom

Redhat Linux

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-07-27T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:21:38.571Z

Reserved: 2001-07-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-0570

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-08-14T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2001-0570

Redhat

Severity :

Publid Date: 2001-05-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2001-0570 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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