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CVE-2001-0140
arpwatch 2.1a4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack in some configurations.
Low1.2EPSS 0.30%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
arpwatch 2.1a4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack in some configurations.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 23 years later
· 23 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low1.2 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.30% · top 77% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 1.2.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- 20010110 Immunix OS Security update for lots of temp file problems (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 2183 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MDKSA-2001:002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- tcpdump-arpwatch-symlink(5922) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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