CVE-2001-0579: Sco Openserver

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

lpadmin in SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 can allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a buffer overflow attack in the first argument to the command.

Affected products

• Sco Openserver: up to and including 5.0.6

Published 2001-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.