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CVE-2001-1256
kmmodreg in HP-UX 11.11, 11.04 and 11.00 allows local users to create arbitrary world-writeable files via a symlink attack on the (1)…
Low1.2EPSS 6.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
kmmodreg in HP-UX 11.11, 11.04 and 11.00 allows local users to create arbitrary world-writeable files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/.kmmodreg_lock and (2) /tmp/kmpath.tmp temporary files.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 22 years later
· 22 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)
- 6.1% · top 6.5% 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 (8)
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5628 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 20010604 yet another sym link followers (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- L-093 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIACx_transferred
- 2821 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- VU#127435 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/TJSL-4Z5Q92 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- HPSBUX0106-153 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- hpux-kmmodreg-symlink(6656) (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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