CVE-2001-1586

Exp

Directory traversal vulnerability in SimpleServer:WWW 1.13 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via encoded ../ ("%2E%2E%2F%") sequences in a request to the cgi-bin/ directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2000-0664.

Published: 2010-02-12 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2001-1586 is rated High Exploit Risk (86/100): CVSS Critical severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.67%). Core evidence: 4 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.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2001-1586

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
21039 exploit_db edb 2001-07-26 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2001-1586

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 2026-05-22 3.50% 3.67% +0.17%
2 2025-09-02 2.62% 3.50% +0.88%
3 2025-07-06 2.62%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2001-1586

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
10.0 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C 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:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
10.0 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2001-1586

OS Trackers for CVE-2001-1586

vendor priority summary link
alpine CVE-2001-1586: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2001-1586

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2001-1586

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
analogx simpleserver_www <= 1.13 cpe:2.3:a:analogx:simpleserver_www:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
analogx simpleserver_www 1.0.8 cpe:2.3:a:analogx:simpleserver_www:1.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
analogx simpleserver_www 1.01 cpe:2.3:a:analogx:simpleserver_www:1.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
analogx simpleserver_www 1.03 cpe:2.3:a:analogx:simpleserver_www:1.03:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
analogx simpleserver_www 1.04 cpe:2.3:a:analogx:simpleserver_www:1.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
analogx simpleserver_www 1.05 cpe:2.3:a:analogx:simpleserver_www:1.05:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
analogx simpleserver_www 1.06 cpe:2.3:a:analogx:simpleserver_www:1.06:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2001-1586

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