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CVE-2011-1760

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-1760 describes an eval injection vulnerability in utils/opcontrol of OProfile 0.9.6 and earlier, allowing local users to gain privileges by injecting shell metacharacters into the -e argument. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this high-severity flaw has low attack complexity and requires local access, but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the KEV catalog and with no active Metasploit or Nuclei exploits, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-35681) confirms the existence of public exploit code for local privilege escalation. Despite this, there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.9.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-35681 · Apr 29, 2011
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0137 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 3,241 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: oprofile
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: oprofile

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-1760Moderate

oprofile: Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter

Apr 26, 2011

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
Exploit
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/04/29/3
ExploitPatch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/05/01/1
ExploitPatch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/05/01/2
ExploitPatch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/05/02/17
ExploitPatch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/05/03/2
ExploitPatch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/05/10/6
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/05/10/7
Patch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/05/11/1
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitPatch
secunia.com / advisories/44790
secunia.com / advisories/45205
debian.org / security/2011/dsa-2254
securityfocus.com / bid/47652
Exploit
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1166-1