CVE-2001-1256: HP HP-Ux

Low severity, CVSS 1.2. EPSS: 6.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

kmmodreg in HP-UX 11.11, 11.04 and 11.00 allows local users to create arbitrary world-writeable files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/.kmmodreg_lock and (2) /tmp/kmpath.tmp temporary files.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 11.00 only; version 11.04 only; version 11.11 only

Published 2001-06-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.