CVE-2001-1442

Exp

Buffer overflow in innfeed for ISC InterNetNews (INN) before 2.3.0 allows local users in the "news" group to gain privileges via a long -c command line argument.

Published: 2001-04-21 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2001-1442 is rated Exploit Available (54.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.44%). 6 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2001-1442

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
20778 exploit_db edb 2001-04-18 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2001-1442

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 0.55% 0.44% -0.10%
2 2025-03-29 0.44% 0.55% +0.10%
3 2025-03-28 — 0.44% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2001-1442

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.6 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 3.9 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2001-1442

OS Trackers for CVE-2001-1442

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2001-1442 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (inn2), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2001-1442

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-2001-1442

Solution: INN 2.3.0 fixes problem.

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2001-1442

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
isc inn 2.0 cpe:2.3:a:isc:inn:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc inn 2.1 cpe:2.3:a:isc:inn:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc inn 2.2 cpe:2.3:a:isc:inn:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc inn 2.2.1 cpe:2.3:a:isc:inn:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc inn 2.2.2 cpe:2.3:a:isc:inn:2.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc inn 2.2.3 cpe:2.3:a:isc:inn:2.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2001-1442

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