7.2high

CVE-2001-00931 exploit

Vulnerability in telnetd in FreeBSD 1.5 allows local users to gain root privileges by modifying critical environmental variables that affec…

Published 25 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.2
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.7%
percentile 53%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Vulnerability in telnetd in FreeBSD 1.5 allows local users to gain root privileges by modifying critical environmental variables that affect the behavior of telnetd.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.68% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-409 BSD - 'TelnetD' Remote Command Execution (1) · remote · 2001-06-09

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.07.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Sources

vulnwire keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA; records that alias each other are merged. Machine-readable: JSON.