CVE-2001-0797

highpriority · act · 83EPSS 0.949 · 100 %ileexploit · weaponizedEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

10 exploits · weaponized

Likely / severe?

94.9% (100th) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

43 products

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Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-23

Buffer overflow in login in various System V based operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a large number of arguments through services such as telnet and rlogin.

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

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USLLM-inferred

exploits (10)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

exploit/solaris/telnet/ttypromptSolaris in.telnetd TTYPROMPT Buffer Overflowweaponized · metasploit
EDB-10036System V Derived /bin/login - Extraneous Arguments Buffer Overflow (modem based) (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db
EDB-16327Solaris TelnetD - 'TTYPROMPT' Remote Buffer Overflow (2) (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db
EDB-16928System V Derived /bin/login - Extraneous Arguments Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db
EDB-21179Solaris 2.x/7.0/8 - Derived 'login' Remote Buffer Overflowfunctional · exploit_db
EDB-346Solaris /bin/login (SPARC/x86) - Remote Code Executionfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (43)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
hp hp-ux= 10.00nvdUScpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
hp hp-ux= 10.01nvdUScpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
hp hp-ux= 10.10nvdUScpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
hp hp-ux= 10.20nvdUScpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
hp hp-ux= 10.24nvdUScpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
hp hp-ux= 11.0.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
hp hp-ux= 11.00nvdUScpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
hp hp-ux= 11.11nvdUScpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 4.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 4.3.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 4.3.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 4.3.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sco openserver= 5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sco:openserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sco openserver= 5.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sco:openserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sco openserver= 5.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sco:openserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sco openserver= 5.0.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sco:openserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sco openserver= 5.0.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sco:openserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sco openserver= 5.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sco:openserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2001-12-12modified 2026-06-16

references (20)

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