CVE-2001-1320 describes a critical denial-of-service and potential arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Network Associates PGP Keyserver 7.0. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the server by sending malformed BER encodings, likely exploiting buffer overflows, as demonstrated by the PROTOS LDAPv3 test suite. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without authentication, potentially leading to full compromise of the affected system. Exploit code, including a Metasploit module, is publicly available, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pgp:keyserver:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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