THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2001-0972
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2001-0972

Asp Forum vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
3.8%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
Surf-Net ASP Forum before 2.30 uses easily guessable cookies based on the UserID, which allows remote attackers to gain administrative privileges by calculating the value of the admin cookie (UserID 1), i.e. "0888888."
Affected vendor
Surf Net
Affected product
Asp Forum
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2001-08-31

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2001-0972

  • Confirm whether Surf Net Asp Forum is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2001-0972.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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