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CVE-2001-0427
Cisco VPN 3000 series concentrators before 2.5.2(F) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a flood of invalid login…
High7.1EPSS 2.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Cisco VPN 3000 series concentrators before 2.5.2(F) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a flood of invalid login requests to (1) the SSL service, or (2) the telnet service, which do not properly disconnect the user after several failed login attempts.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 23 years later
· 23 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.1 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (3)
- 20010328 VPN3000 Concentrator TELNET Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- 5643 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- cisco-vpn-telnet-dos(6298) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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