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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2001-1022 in the critical feed json

Format string vulnerability in pic utility in groff 1.16.1 and other versions, and jgroff before 1.15, allows remote attackers to bypass th…

published 2001-07-26 25 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2001-1003

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.4%
EPSS 11.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Format string vulnerability in pic utility in groff 1.16.1 and other versions, and jgroff before 1.15, allows remote attackers to bypass the -S option and execute arbitrary commands via format string specifiers in the plot command.

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-2001-1022 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Linux 7.0 Red Hat Linux 7.1 Red Hat Linux 7.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2002:004

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-21037)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

11.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21037 GNU groff 1.1x - xploitation Via LPD remote, 2001-06-23
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3103 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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