CVE-2001-0370: Michael A. Gumienny Fcheck

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

fcheck prior to 2.57.59 calls the file signature checking program insecurely, which can allow a local user to run arbitrary commands via a file name that contains shell metacharacters.

Affected products

• Michael A. Gumienny Fcheck: up to and including 2.57.59

Published 2001-06-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.