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CVE-2001-0667

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 14.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-03-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-88

Description

Internet Explorer 6 and earlier, when used with the Telnet client in Services for Unix (SFU) 2.0, allows remote attackers to execute commands by spawning Telnet with a log file option on the command line and writing arbitrary code into an executable file which is later executed, aka a new variant of the Telnet Invocation vulnerability as described in CVE-2001-0150.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: through 6.0

References

• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-024.shtml
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952611
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2001/ms01-051
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7260
• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-024.shtml
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952611
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2001/ms01-051
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7260

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