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CVE-2001-1078

43
FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-1078 describes a critical format string vulnerability in the flog function of eXtremail versions 1.1.9 and earlier. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to gain root privileges by injecting format specifiers into various SMTP and POP3 commands. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication or complex attack vectors, and leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA KEV, multiple exploit codes are publicly available on ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating its historical relevance and exploitability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
5.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20954 · Oct 6, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0544 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 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/2001-06/0291.html
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/6733
extremail.com / history.htm
extremail.com / news.htm
securityfocus.com / bid/2908
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