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CVE-2001-0594

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2001-08-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

kcms_configure as included with Solaris 7 and 8 allows a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a buffer overflow in a command line argument.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: 7.0, 8.0
• Sunos: 5.7, 5.8

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-04/0140.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2558
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6359
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A65
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-04/0140.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2558
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6359
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A65
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7

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