Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2001-0059. PoCs published by Larry W. Cashdollar.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a race condition in Solaris patchadd (CVE-2001-0059) by symlinking /tmp/response.<PID> to /etc/passwd. When patchadd runs as root, it follows the symlink and overwrites the target file, enabling privilege escalation or system corruption.
Description
patchadd in Solaris allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
Exploits (1)
This exploit targets a race condition in Solaris patchadd (CVE-2001-0059) by symlinking /tmp/response.<PID> to /etc/passwd. When patchadd runs as root, it follows the symlink and overwrites the target file, enabling privilege escalation or system corruption.