CVE-2001-0873: Ian Lance Taylor Taylor Uucp

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

uuxqt in Taylor UUCP package does not properly remove dangerous long options, which allows local users to gain privileges by calling uux and specifying an alternate configuration file with the --config option.

Affected products

• Ian Lance Taylor Taylor Uucp: version 1.0.6 only

Published 2001-12-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.