CVE-2001-1583

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 83.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2001-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-78

Description

lpd daemon (in.lpd) in Solaris 8 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a job request with a crafted control file that is not properly handled when lpd invokes a mail program. NOTE: this might be the same vulnerability as CVE-2000-1220.

Affected products

Sunos: through 5.9

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99929694701826&w=2
http://metasploit.com/projects/Framework/modules/exploits/solaris_lpd_exec.pm
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/incidents/2001-08/0490.html
http://www.osvdb.org/15131
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3274
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7087
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99929694701826&w=2
http://metasploit.com/projects/Framework/modules/exploits/solaris_lpd_exec.pm
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/incidents/2001-08/0490.html
http://www.osvdb.org/15131
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3274
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7087

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