CVE-2001-0979
Buffer overflow in swverify in HP-UX 11.0, and possibly other programs, allows local users to gain privileges via a long command line…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 25% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in swverify in HP-UX 11.0, and possibly other programs, allows local users to gain privileges via a long command line argument.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
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Exploit-DB2 entries
- HP-UX 11.0/11.11 - 'swxxx' Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 482local, hp-uxpublished 11 Dec 2002Verified
- HP-UX 11.0 - SWVerify Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 21098local, hp-uxpublished 3 Sept 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
- 2 days later
· 2 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)
- 1.6% · top 25% of all CVEs (9 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
3
- hpux-swverify-bo(7078) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20010903 hpux warez (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 3279 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2001-0961 (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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