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CVE-2001-0489

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0489 describes a format string vulnerability in gftp versions prior to 2.0.8, allowing remote malicious FTP servers to execute arbitrary commands on a user's system. This vulnerability carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and potential for partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gftp:gftp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0199 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 51,466 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 6.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2001-0489

security flaw

Apr 17, 2001

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/linux/redhat/2001-q2/0043.html
PatchVendor Advisory
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/vuln-dev/2001-q2/0231.html
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/6478
debian.org / security/2001/dsa-057
osvdb.org / 1805
securityfocus.com / bid/2657