CVE-2003-0061: HP HP-Ux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in passwd for HP UX B.10.20 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via a long LANG environment variable.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 10.20 only

Published 2002-01-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.