CVE-2001-1091 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting NetBSD versions 1.4.x through 1.5.1. The "dump" and "dump_lfs" commands fail to properly drop privileges, allowing local users to elevate their access by manipulating the RCMD_CMD environment variable. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.2, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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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 records are not available for this CVE.