CVE-2001-1022

Groff vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

11.4%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

Format string vulnerability in pic utility in groff 1.16.1 and other versions, and jgroff before 1.15, allows remote attackers to bypass the -S option and execute arbitrary commands via format string specifiers in the plot command.

Affected vendor

Gnu

Affected product

Groff

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2001-07-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 11.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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