CVE-2001-0573: IBM Aix

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

lsfs in AIX 4.x allows a local user to gain additional privileges by creating Trojan horse programs named (1) grep or (2) lslv in a certain directory that is under the user's control, which cause lsfs to access the programs in that directory.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 4 only

Published 2001-08-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.