CVE-2001-0609

9.8
CRITICALCVSS v3.1 Base Score
18.23%
LOW RiskEPSS (97th percentile)

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: 8/2/2001
Modified: 6/16/2026
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Vulnerability Summary

CVSS v3 Score

9.8CRITICAL

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

CVSS v2 Score

10

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Score (Exploitation Probability)

18.23%LOW Exploitation Risk
97th percentile

This vulnerability has a 18.23% probability of being exploited in the next 30 days, ranking higher than 97% of all scored CVEs.

CWE Classification

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