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CVE-2001-1278

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-1278 describes a security bypass vulnerability in Zope versions prior to 2.2.4. Partially trusted users could circumvent security controls for specific methods by leveraging the fmt attribute within dtml-var tags. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zope:zope:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zope:zope:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zope:zope:2.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zope:zope:2.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zope:zope:2.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0140 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2001-1278

security flaw

Oct 10, 2001

References

linux-mandrake.com / en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-080.php3
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2001-115.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/3425