CVE-2001-1256 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting HP-UX versions 11.11, 11.04, and 11.00. The kmmodreg utility allows local users to create arbitrary world-writeable files through a symlink attack on temporary files, specifically /tmp/.kmmodreg_lock and /tmp/kmpath.tmp. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 1.2, indicating a local attack vector with high attack complexity and a potential impact of partial integrity loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
11.00CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:11.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:11.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:11.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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