THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2001-0690
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2001-0690

Exim vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
11.9%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
Format string vulnerability in exim (3.22-10 in Red Hat, 3.12 in Debian and 3.16 in Conectiva) in batched SMTP mode allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via format strings in SMTP mail headers.
Affected vendor
University Of Cambridge
Affected product
Exim
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2001-09-20

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 11.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2001-0690

  • Confirm whether University Of Cambridge Exim is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2001-0690.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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