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CVE-2001-0575

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0575 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the lpshut utility within SCO OpenServer 5.0.6. A local attacker can exploit this by providing a lengthy first argument to lpshut, potentially gaining elevated privileges. This vulnerability is rated Medium severity (CVSS 4.6), indicating that an attacker with local access can achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact with low attack complexity. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit code for this vulnerability is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sco:openserver:5.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
48.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20737 · Mar 27, 2001
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0067 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 3,050 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/bugtraq/2001-03/0404.html
PatchVendor Advisory
security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk / bugtraq-200104/0221.html
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/6290