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CVE-2001-0230

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0230 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in dc20ctrl, specifically versions prior to 0.4_1, affecting FreeBSD and potentially other operating systems. This flaw allows local users to escalate their privileges on the compromised system. With a CVSS score of 4.6 (Medium), the vulnerability requires local access (AV:L) and has low attack complexity (AC:L), potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:P/I:P/A:P). There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known public exploit codes available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received no community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.4_1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0048 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 3,052 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 0.4 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/freebsd/2001-02/0083.html
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/6077
osvdb.org / 6081