Is CVE-2001-0797 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2001-0797 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2001-0797?

CVE-2001-0797 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2001-0797?

CVE-2001-0797 has an EPSS score of 88.73% (100th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2001-0797

HIGHEPSS 100th pctl

10.0

CVSS v2

NVD

Description

Buffer overflow in login in various System V based operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a large number of arguments through services such as telnet and rlogin.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

88.73%probability of exploitation in 30 days

100thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 100% of all known CVEs.

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100844757228307&w=2
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/213
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY26221&apar=only
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-34.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/569272
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/246487
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3681
http://xforce.iss.net/alerts/advise105.php
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7284
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2025

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-16.