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CVE-2001-0490

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0490 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in Nullsoft Winamp versions 2.6x and 2.7x, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying an overly long string within an AIP file. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not currently on CISA's KEV catalog or showing active exploitation, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and its FAUCET Risk Score of 90/100 suggests a significant theoretical risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6xCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nullsoft:winamp:2.6x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.7xCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nullsoft:winamp:2.7x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20820 · Apr 29, 2001
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0354 is in the 79th 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/2001-04/0518.html
PatchVendor Advisory