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CVE-2001-0369

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0369 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the lpsched utility on Digital UNIX (DGUX) versions R4.20MU06 and MU02. This flaw allows a local attacker to gain root privileges by supplying an excessively long, non-existent printer name as a command-line argument. The vulnerability is rated as high severity with a CVSS score of 7.2, indicating a low attack complexity and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, an exploit for this vulnerability is publicly available on ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
mu02CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:digital:unix:mu02:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
r4.20mu06CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:digital:unix:r4.20mu06:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
49.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20697 · Mar 19, 2001
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0071 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 3,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

marc.info
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/6258