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CVE-2001-0171

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0171 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in SlimServe HTTPd 1.0, allowing remote attackers to trigger a denial of service and potentially execute arbitrary commands. With a CVSS score of 10.0 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without authentication, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation is reported and community discussion is minimal, a denial-of-service exploit for a similar version (1.1) exists on ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:whitsoft:slimserve:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
12.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20662 · Feb 28, 2001
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1226 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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/2001-01/0505.html
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/6028
securityfocus.com / bid/2318
Vendor Advisory