CVE-2001-0316

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.6)—Exploit

Severity4.6Medium · CVSS 2.0

Exploitation probability0.78 %higher than 55% of CVEs

Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog

Public exploitAvailablePublished on Exploit-DB

Linux kernel 2.4 and 2.2 allows local users to read kernel memory and possibly gain privileges via a negative argument to the sysctl call.

CVSS

Base score: 4.6
Version: 2.0
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.78 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 55
Score date: 10/21/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Published on Exploit-DB · Linux Kernel 2.2.x - 'sysctl()' Memory Reading (2/9/2001)

Affected technologies (1)

Linux — Linux Kernel

CWEs

NVD-CWE-Other

References

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Raw JSON (NVD)

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