CVE-2001-0169

lowpriority · track · 18OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.009 · 58 %ileexploit · functionalEURUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

0.86% (58th) EPSS

CVSS 2.1 · low

Is it mine?

15 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

When using the LD_PRELOAD environmental variable in SUID or SGID applications, glibc does not verify that preloaded libraries in /etc/ld.so.cache are also SUID/SGID, which could allow a local user to overwrite arbitrary files by loading a library from /lib or /usr/lib.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–critical · 1.9–10

v2.02.1lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 2.9

v2.010criticalAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Csecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v2.01.9lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-276USLLM-inferredCWE-284USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-290GLIBC 2.1.3 - 'LD_PRELOAD' Local Privilege Escalationfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (15)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Red Hat Inc. Red Hat Enterprise Linux≤ 6.2fstec_bduRU
mandrakesoft mandrake linux= 6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mandrakesoft mandrake linux= 6.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mandrakesoft mandrake linux= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mandrakesoft mandrake linux= 7.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mandrakesoft mandrake linux= 7.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mandrakesoft mandrake linux corporate server= 1.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux_corporate_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat linux= 6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat linux= 6.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat linux= 6.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trustix secure linux= 1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:trustix:secure_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trustix secure linux= 1.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:trustix:secure_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
turbolinux turbolinux≤ 6.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:o:turbolinux:turbolinux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
turbolinux turbolinux= 6.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:turbolinux:turbolinux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2001-03-26modified 2026-06-16

references (18)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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