CVE-2001-1479 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Sun SMC (Sun Management Center) 2.0 running on Solaris 8. Attackers can leverage a symlink attack on a temporary file to delete arbitrary files on the system. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a low severity due to requiring local access and having a low impact (partial integrity loss). There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV entry, though it has garnered some community discussion with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sun:management\+center:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub 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 records are not available for this CVE.