CVE-2001-1172

MEDIUM 4.6CVE-2001-1172 · Published 19/07/2001 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2001-1172 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.6) vulnerability affecting httprotect (omnisecure).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.35%, higher than 29.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
httprotect omnisecure	`= 1.1.1`	No fix yet

OmniSecure HTTProtect 1.1.1 allows a superuser without omnish privileges to modify a protected file by creating a symbolic link to that file.

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