CVE-2001-0279
Buffer overflow in sudo earlier than 1.6.3p6 allows local users to gain root privileges.
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.86%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 41% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in sudo earlier than 1.6.3p6 allows local users to gain root privileges.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits1
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Sudo 1.5/1.6 - Heap Corruption (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 20901local, linuxpublished 22 Feb 2001Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 33 days later
· 33 days 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 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.86% · top 41% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- RHSA-2001:018 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 20010222 Sudo version 1.6.3p6 now available (fwd) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- MDKSA-2001:024 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- 20010225 [slackware-security] buffer overflow in sudo fixed (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- DSA-031 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 20010226 Trustix Security Advisory - sudo (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- CLA-2001:381 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVAx_transferred
- RHSA-2001:019 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2001-0279 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2001-0279)Record last updated .