CVE-2001-0972

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2001-0972 · Published 31/08/2001 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2001-0972 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting asp forum (surf-net).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.8%, higher than 90.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
asp forum surf-net	`= 2.20≤ 2.30`	No fix yet

Description

Surf-Net ASP Forum before 2.30 uses easily guessable cookies based on the UserID, which allows remote attackers to gain administrative privileges by calculating the value of the admin cookie (UserID 1), i.e. "0888888."

References

marc.info
securityfocus.com/bid/3210 · Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7011

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