CVE-2025-71263 PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre
Reserved: 13.03.2026 Published: 13.03.2026 Updated: 13.03.2026

In UNIX Fourth Research Edition (v4), the su command is vulnerable to a buffer overflow due to the 'password' variable having a fixed size of 100 bytes. A local user can exploit this to gain root privileges. It is unlikely that UNIX v4 is running anywhere outside of a very small number of lab environments.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.4

Product Status

Vendor AT&T Bell Labs
Product UNIX
Versions Default: unknown
  • Version 4 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') CWE