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CVE-2001-0117

10
FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0117 describes a local file overwrite vulnerability in sdiff 2.7, part of the diffutils package, affecting products like Immunix, Mandrakesoft, Red Hat, and Trustix. This low-severity vulnerability (CVSS 1.2) allows a local attacker with high attack complexity to potentially modify files through a symlink attack, resulting in partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this older CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0_betaCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:immunix:immunix:7.0_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.9%
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 67th percentile among its peer group of 747 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, 0.0 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 (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-2001-0117Low

security flaw

Jan 10, 2001

References

download.immunix.org / ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/IMNX-2000-70-028-01
marc.info
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/5914
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/579928
US Government Resource
linux-mandrake.com / en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-008.php3
Patch
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2001-116.html
securityfocus.com / bid/2191
PatchVendor Advisory