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CVE-2001-0555

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0555 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in ScreamingMedia SITEWare versions 2.5 through 3.1, allowing remote attackers to read arbitrary world-readable files. This critical vulnerability has a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating a high impact with complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and can be exploited with low attack complexity over the network without authentication. While not listed on the KEV catalog, an ExploitDB entry exists (EDB-20925), and community discussion is notably high, suggesting awareness and potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:screaming_media:siteware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
14.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20925 · Jun 13, 2001
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1497 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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/2001-06/0165.html
Vendor Advisory
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2001-06/0166.html
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/6689
www01.screamingmedia.com / en/security/sms1001.php
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/795707
US Government Resource
osvdb.org / 13887
securityfocus.com / bid/2869