CVE-2001-0157 describes a physical access vulnerability in Palm OS 3.5.2 and earlier, where a debugging utility in "backdoor mode" allows an attacker to bypass security and access sensitive information, including passwords. With a CVSS score of 4.6 (MEDIUM), this vulnerability requires physical access to the device (AV:L) and has low attack complexity (AC:L), leading to potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:P/I:P/A:P). Despite its age, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:palm:palm_os:3.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.