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CVE-2001-0626

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0626 describes a path disclosure vulnerability in O'Reilly Website Professional versions 2.5.4 and earlier. A remote attacker can determine the physical path to the web server's root directory by sending a specially crafted URL request containing a colon character. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring no authentication, and potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oreilly:website_professional:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
7.02%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20687 · Mar 16, 2001
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0702 is in the 89th 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/2001-03/0236.html
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/3839
securityfocus.com / bid/2488
ExploitVendor Advisory