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CVE-2001-1098

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-1098 describes a vulnerability in Cisco PIX Firewall Manager (PFM) version 4.3(2)g, where the enable password is logged in plaintext within the pfm.log file. This flaw allows local attackers to easily retrieve the password by accessing the log file. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of partial confidentiality loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is exploit code publicly available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has garnered no community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.3\(2\)gCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:pix_firewall_manager:4.3\(2\)g:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
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
0.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
37.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0046 is in the 70th 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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2001-10/0071.html
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/7265
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/639507
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/3419