CVE-2001-0649

Exp

Personal Web Sharing 1.5.5 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a long HTTP request.

Published: 2001-09-20 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2001-0649 is rated High Exploit Risk (68/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 5.12%, 91th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.10% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2001-0649

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
20844 exploit_db edb 2001-05-10 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2001-0649

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 4.01% 5.12% +1.10%
2 2025-03-30 5.29% 4.01% -1.27%
3 2025-03-29 5.29%

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2001-0649

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2001-0649

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2001-0649

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
apple personal_web_sharing 1.5.5 cpe:2.3:a:apple:personal_web_sharing:1.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2001-0649

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