Format string vulnerability in Infodrom cfingerd 1.4.3 and earlier allows a remote attacker to gain additional privileges via a malformed i…

Published 25 y ago 2001-07-27 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-16 · JSON

CVSS

9.8

v3.1 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

18.2%

percentile 97%

Public exploits

Exploit-DB

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

18.23% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

EDB-20749 cfingerd 1.4 - Format String (2) · remote · 2001-04-16
EDB-20748 cfingerd 1.4 - Format String (1) · remote · 2001-04-11

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.1	9.8	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	10.0	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C`

Classification

Weakness

CWE-193 Off-by-one Error

References

securityfocus.com /bid/2576 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
archives.neohapsis.com /archives/bugtraq/2001-04/0202.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/6364 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2001-0609
NVD: CVE-2001-0609

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