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CVE-2001-0228

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0228 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in GoAhead web server versions 2.1 and earlier, allowing remote attackers to read arbitrary files. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) has a low attack complexity and requires no authentication, enabling attackers to access sensitive information via a ".." attack in HTTP GET requests. While not actively exploited in the wild (no KEV or Hot List mentions), public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
v.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:goahead_software:goahead_webserver:v.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
v.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:goahead_software:goahead_webserver:v.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20607 · Feb 2, 2001
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0356 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2001-02/0022.html
PatchVendor Advisory
freecode.com / projects/embedthis-goahead-webserver/releases/343539
osvdb.org / 81099