CVE-2001-0138: Debian Linux

Low severity, CVSS 1.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

privatepw program in wu-ftpd before 2.6.1-6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 2.2 only
• Immunix Immunix: version 7.0_beta only
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server: version 1.0.1 only
• Red Hat Linux: version 7.0 only

Published 2001-03-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.