CVE-2001-0573

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2001-08-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

lsfs in AIX 4.x allows a local user to gain additional privileges by creating Trojan horse programs named (1) grep or (2) lslv in a certain directory that is under the user's control, which cause lsfs to access the programs in that directory.

Affected products

IBM AIX: 4

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/aix/2001-q2/0000.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/123651
http://www.osvdb.org/5582
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7007
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/aix/2001-q2/0000.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/123651
http://www.osvdb.org/5582
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7007

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