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CVE-2001-0486

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0486 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Novell BorderManager 3.6 and earlier versions. This flaw allows remote attackers to disrupt service by initiating a TCP SYN flood attack against port 353. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), it is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in a complete loss of availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:bordermanager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
5.04%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-264 · May 7, 2001
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0504 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 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, 0.0 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/2001-05/0000.html
Patch
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/vuln-dev/2001-q2/0020.html
Vendor Advisory
marc.info
marc.info
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/6429
support.novell.com / cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/2623
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory