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Fencer Vulns
high 7.2

CVE-2001-0279 json

Buffer overflow in sudo earlier than 1.6.3p6 allows local users to gain root privileges.

published 2001-05-03 25 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2001-0279

cvss
7.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in sudo earlier than 1.6.3p6 allows local users to gain root privileges.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2001-0279 updated

security flaw

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-20901)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

0.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-20901 Sudo 1.5/1.6 - Heap Corruption local, 2001-02-22

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.