CVE-2001-0079 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in HP-UX Support Tools Manager (STM) A.22.00. An attacker can exploit this by creating a symbolic link to the tool_stat.txt log file, allowing them to overwrite arbitrary files on the system. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a low attack complexity and local access requirement, with a potential impact of partial integrity compromise. There is no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog, suggesting no active exploitation. However, there is some community discussion, with 10 mentions, primarily on GitHub.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
a.22.00CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hp:support_tools_manager:a.22.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.