CVE-2001-1320
Network Associates PGP Keyserver 7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 68.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Network Associates PGP Keyserver 7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via exceptional BER encodings (possibly buffer overflows), as demonstrated by the PROTOS LDAPv3 test suite.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- Network Associates PGP KeyServer 7 LDAP Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/ldap/pgp_keyserver7Rank gooddisclosed 16 Jul 2001
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Network Associates PGP KeyServer 7 - LDAP Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16823remote, windowspublished 14 Nov 2010Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 22 years later
· 22 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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 68.3% · top 0.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- CA-2001-18 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c06/ldapv3/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- L-116 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIACx_transferred
- VU#765256 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/JPLA-4WESNK (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- pgp-keyserver-ldap-bo(6900) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 3046 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2001-1301 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2001-1320)Record last updated .