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CVE-2001-0265

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0265 describes a low-severity vulnerability in the ASCII Armor parser of Windows PGP versions 7.0.3 and earlier. This flaw allows an attacker to create files in arbitrary locations on a user's system by crafting a malformed ASCII armored file. The attack requires local access and has a low impact, primarily affecting integrity with no confidentiality or availability concerns. While not actively exploited in the wild and lacking Metasploit or Nuclei modules, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-20738) exists, indicating public knowledge of a proof-of-concept for PGP 5.x/6.x/7.0. There is no evidence of community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 7.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pgp:pgp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pgp:pgp:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20738 · Apr 9, 2001
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0072 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 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

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/6643
atstake.com / research/advisories/2001/a040901-1.txt
PatchVendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 1782
securityfocus.com / bid/2556