Vulnerability in fetchmail 5.5.0-2 and earlier in the AUTHENTICATE GSSAPI command.

published 2001-02-02 25 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2001-0101

cvss: 10.0; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.8%; EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits: 0; none known

Patch / fix

links 1

turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-December/000027.html advisory

Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2001-0101 updated 2025-11-21

security flaw

Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	2.0	10.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

turbolinux.com /pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-December/000027.html
vendor-advisory, patch
redhat.com /support/errata/RHBA-2000-106.html
vendor-advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/7455
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2001-0101
NVD CVE-2001-0101

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Summary