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CVE-2001-0036

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CVE-2001-0036 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in KTH Kerberos IV, allowing an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on a ticket file. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 1.2, indicating a local attack vector with high access complexity and only partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Despite its age and low severity, the CVE has garnered 10 community mentions, suggesting some historical interest.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kth:kth_kerberos:4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.2LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
36.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0045 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2001-0036

security flaw

Dec 8, 2000

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2000-12/0093.html
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2000-12/0105.html
Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/5754
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2001-025.html