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CVE-2001-0570

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0570 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting minicom versions 1.83.1 and earlier, stemming from numerous format string vulnerabilities. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (HIGH), this flaw allows an unauthenticated local attacker to achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the affected system. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.83.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:minicom:minicom:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0052 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 3,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 5.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 6.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2001-0570

security flaw

May 3, 2001

References

marc.info
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/6498
calderasystems.com / support/security/advisories/CSSA-2001-016.0.txt
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2001-067.html
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/181922