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CVE-2001-0520

34
FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0520 describes a script-filtering bypass vulnerability in Aladdin eSafe Gateway versions 3.0 and earlier. A remote attacker can circumvent the gateway's filtering of SCRIPT tags by embedding malicious scripts within specific HTML attributes like onload in the BODY tag, href in the A tag, or within BUTTON and INPUT tags. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, potentially leading to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:aladdin_knowledge_systems:esafe_gateway:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20869 · May 20, 2001
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0238 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2001-05/0284.html
ExploitVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/6580