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CVE-2001-0610

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0610 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting kfm in KDE 1.x, including specific SuSE Linux distributions. An attacker can exploit this by creating a symlink in the kfm cache directory within /tmp, leading to potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 4.6 (Medium) and a FAUCET Risk Score of 89/100, this vulnerability is considered moderately severe due to its local attack vector and low complexity. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, and there is significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.xCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:1.x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:7.0:*:ppc:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:7.0:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:7.0:alpha:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20781 · Apr 18, 2001
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0056 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 3,049 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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/2001-04/0336.html
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/6428