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CVE-2001-0012

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0012 describes a vulnerability in BIND 4 and BIND 8 that allows remote attackers to access sensitive information, specifically environment variables. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires no authentication, but its impact is limited to confidentiality. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it is not listed on the KEV catalog, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:4.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.9.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:4.9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.9.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:4.9.5:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.9.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:4.9.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.9.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:4.9.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0353 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 5.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 6.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.0
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2001-0012

security flaw

Jan 29, 2001

References

cert.org / advisories/CA-2001-02.html
PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
debian.org / security/2001/dsa-026
nai.com / research/covert/advisories/047.asp
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2001-007.html
securityfocus.com / bid/2321