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CVE-2001-0049

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0049 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting WatchGuard SOHO FireWall versions 2.2.1 and earlier. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a large volume of GET requests, leading to service disruption. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), indicating a low attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, suggesting ongoing awareness despite its age.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:watchguard:soho_firewall:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20487 · Dec 8, 2000
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0310 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2000-12/0079.html
ExploitVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/5665
securityfocus.com / bid/2082
ExploitVendor Advisory