CVE-2001-1036

highpriority · track · 39EPSS 0.009 · 59 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

0.90% (59th) EPSS

CVSS 7.2 · high

Is it mine?

5 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

GNU locate in findutils 4.1 on Slackware 7.1 and 8.0 allows local users to gain privileges via an old formatted filename database (locatedb) that contains an entry with an out-of-range offset, which causes locate to write to arbitrary process memory.

cvss

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

7.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–7.2

v2.07.2highAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 10

v2.06.5mediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USLLM-inferredCWE-20USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-21043GNU findutils 4.0/4.1 - Locate Arbitrary Command Executionfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
gnu findutils= 4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:findutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu findutils= 4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:findutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
slackware slackware linux= 7.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
slackware slackware linux= 8.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2001-08-31modified 2026-06-16

references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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