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CVE-2001-0616

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0616 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Faust Informatics Freestyle Chat server versions prior to 4.1 SR3. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger this by sending a URL request containing an MS-DOS device name, such as "/aux". This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (MEDIUM), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and potential for partial availability impact. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:faust_informatics:freestyle_chat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20883 · May 25, 2001
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0706 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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/2001-05/0241.html
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/6602
securityfocus.com / bid/2777
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory