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CVE-2001-1320

75
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pgp:keyserver:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
68.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Network Associates PGP KeyServer 7 LDAP Buffer Overflow · Jul 16, 2001
ExploitDB: EDB-16823 · Nov 14, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6832 is in the 99th 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

ciac.llnl.gov / ciac/bulletins/l-116.shtml
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/6900
cert.org / advisories/CA-2001-18.html
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
ee.oulu.fi / research/ouspg/protos/testing/c06/ldapv3
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/765256
US Government Resource
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/JPLA-4WESNK
US Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/3046
Vendor Advisory