Vulnerability Report

CVE-2001-0168

Title: AT&T WinVNC server long HTTP GET with DebugLevel buffer overflow

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2001-0168

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 03, 2001

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

70.73%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2001-0168: Buffer overflow in AT&T WinVNC (Virtual Network Computing) server 3.3.3r7 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long HTTP GET request when the DebugLevel registry key is greater than 0.

Impacted Vendors

att 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=vnc-list&m=98080763005455&w=2 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/598581 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2306 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6026 http://marc.info/?l=vnc-list&m=98080763005455&w=2 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/598581 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2306 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6026

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2001-0168 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16491

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 03, 2001 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.