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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2001-0626 json

O'Reilly Website Professional 2.5.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to determine the physical path to the root directory via a URL requ…

published 2001-08-22 25 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2001-0617

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.0%
EPSS 7.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-20687)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

7.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-20687 OReilly Software WebSite Professional 2.5.4 - Path Disclosure remote, 2001-03-16
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2488 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.