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CVE-2001-0961

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0961 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability within the tab expansion capability of the 'most' program, specifically affecting john_e._davis most. This flaw allows both local and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems by tricking a user into viewing a specially crafted, malformed file. With a CVSS score of 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this vulnerability is highly severe, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it lacks community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:john_e._davis:most:4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:john_e._davis:most:4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:john_e._davis:most:4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:john_e._davis:most:4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:john_e._davis:most:4.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0554 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (1)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/7149
debian.org / security/2001/dsa-076
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/3347
PatchVendor Advisory