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CVE-2001-0063

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0063 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the procfs filesystem, specifically affecting FreeBSD and potentially other operating systems. An attacker can exploit this flaw to bypass access control restrictions within a jail environment, gaining elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable locally with no authentication required, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there are no known active exploits or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness and potential for future exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 3,241 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

ftp.freebsd.org / pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:77.procfs.v1.1.asc
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/6108
osvdb.org / 1691
securityfocus.com / bid/2132
PatchVendor Advisory