Cisco PIX Firewall 515 and 520 with 5.1.4 OS running aaa authentication to a TACACS+ server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of authentication requests.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2001-0375 is rated High Exploit Risk (63.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 10.30%, 95th percentile). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20734 | exploit_db | edb | 2001-04-06 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 16.08% | 10.30% | -5.77% |
| 2 | 2025-07-27 | 23.46% | 16.08% | -7.39% |
| 3 | 2025-03-30 | — | 23.46% | — |
Full EPSS history (10 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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10.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| cisco | pix_firewall_515 | — | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:pix_firewall_515:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| cisco | pix_firewall_520 | — | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:pix_firewall_520:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |