CVE-2001-1256

Severity: low (CVSS 1.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2001-06-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

kmmodreg in HP-UX 11.11, 11.04 and 11.00 allows local users to create arbitrary world-writeable files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/.kmmodreg_lock and (2) /tmp/kmpath.tmp temporary files.

Affected products

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HP-UX: 11.00, 11.04, 11.11

References

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/l-093.shtml
http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/3354
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/127435
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/TJSL-4Z5Q92
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/188568
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2821
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6656
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5628
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/l-093.shtml
http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/3354
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/127435
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/TJSL-4Z5Q92

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