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CVE-2001-0609

CRITICAL

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.

Published: Aug 2, 2001 Modified: Jun 16, 2026
CWE-193

CVSS Metrics

CVSSv3
Attack Vector: NETWORK Attack Complexity: LOW Privileges Required: NONE User Interaction: NONE Scope: UNCHANGED Confidentiality Impact: HIGH Integrity Impact: HIGH Availability Impact: HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products (1)

Vendor Product Version
infodrom cfingerd *

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-fppm-3x24-27q8

Format string vulnerability in Infodrom cfingerd 1.4.3 and earlier allows a remote attacker to...

References (6)

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 9.8 / 10
EPSS Score 18.24%

Top 3% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 44.7 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub