CVE-2001-0667

high Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score
1.6%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 18% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Published: October 30, 2001 (8962 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Internet Explorer 6 and earlier, when used with the Telnet client in Services for Unix (SFU) 2.0, allows remote attackers to execute commands by spawning Telnet with a log file option on the command line and writing arbitrary code into an executable file which is later executed, aka a new variant of the Telnet Invocation vulnerability as described in CVE-2001-0150.

CWE

CWE-88

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 www.ciac.org 🔗 www.kb.cert.org 🔗 docs.microsoft.com 🔗 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com 🔗 www.ciac.org