CVE-2001-0626

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O'Reilly Website Professional 2.5.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to determine the physical path to the root directory via a URL request containing a ":" character.

Published: 2001-08-22 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2001-0626 is rated High Exploit Risk (81.6/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 7.02%, 93th percentile). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +3.96% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2001-0626

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
20687 exploit_db edb 2001-03-16 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2001-0626

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 3.06% 7.02% +3.96%
2 2025-03-30 4.13% 3.06% -1.06%
3 2025-03-29 — 4.13% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2001-0626

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2001-0626

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2001-0626

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
oreilly website_professional <= 2.5.4 cpe:2.3:a:oreilly:website_professional:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2001-0626

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