CVE-2001-1442
Buffer overflow in innfeed for ISC InterNetNews (INN) before 2.3.0 allows local users in the "news" group to gain privileges via a long -c…
- 4.6MediumCVSS base score
- 1.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 20% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in innfeed for ISC InterNetNews (INN) before 2.3.0 allows local users in the "news" group to gain privileges via a long -c 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
- ISC INN 2.x - Command-Line Buffer Overflow (1) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 20777local, linuxpublished 18 Apr 2001Verified
- ISC INN 2.x - Command-Line Buffer Overflow (2) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 20778local, linuxpublished 18 Apr 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
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Published
- 19 years later
· 19 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 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- VU#943536 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- innfeed-c-bo(6398) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1001353 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 2620 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20010418 Re: Innfeed Buffer Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20010418 Innfeed Buffer Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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-2001-1422 (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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