HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2001-1356

Surgeftp vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
3.8%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
NetWin SurgeFTP 2.0f and earlier encrypts passwords using weak hashing, a fixed salt value and modulo 40 calculations, which allows remote attackers to conduct brute force password guessing attacks against the administrator account on port 7021.
Affected vendor
Netwin
Affected product
Surgeftp
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2001-08-04

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-2001-1356

  • Confirm whether Netwin Surgeftp is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2001-1356.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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