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medium 5.0

CVE-2001-0616 json

Faust Informatics Freestyle Chat server prior to 4.1 SR3 allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via a URL request which inc…

published 2001-08-14 25 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2001-0607

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.1%
EPSS 7.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Faust Informatics Freestyle Chat server prior to 4.1 SR3 allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via a URL request which includes a MS-DOS device name (e.g., GET /aux HTTP/1.0).

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-20883)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

7.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-20883 Faust Informatics FreeStyle Chat 4.1 SR2 MS-DOS Device Name - Denial of Service dos, 2001-05-25
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2777 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • archives.neohapsis.com http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-05/0241.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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