CVE-2001-0537

HIGHCVSS v2 · 9.39.3
EchelonGraph scoreLOW confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS v2 base score.

This CVE was only ever scored under CVSS v2.0. NVD CVSS v2.0 base 9.3 — NVD rates that HIGH (NVD's v2 bands: LOW 0.0–3.9 / MEDIUM 4.0–6.9 / HIGH 7.0–10.0; no CRITICAL band). Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. CVSS v2 is an older, coarser metric than v3.1/v4.0 (no Scope, no User Interaction, no Attack Requirements), so it is not directly comparable to a v3 or v4 score. NVD has never re-scored this record under v3. EPSS predicts 68% exploitation probability in the next 30 days; it does not lift the v2 base. EPSS sets EG Risk's exploitation input. Confidence: LOW.

Triggered by: NVD CVSS v2.0 (legacy fallback)
Sources: NVD CVSS v2.0
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekWeaponized

Also known asEUVD-2001-0529 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationNo release containing the referenced fix is confirmed: check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 68%
  • Public exploit code is available (Metasploit, Exploit-DB, marked verified by Exploit-DB)
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 68%CVSS v2: 9.3Exploit: Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified)Exposed services: Not assessed

A fix is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but no release containing it is confirmed — find the release that contains it; until it is applied, mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation).

HTTP server for Cisco IOS 11.3 to 12.2 allows attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands, when local authorization is being used, by specifying a high access level in the URL.

CVSS v2.0 (legacy)
9.3HIGHNVD never assigned a CVSS v3 rating to this CVE
EG Score
9.3HIGHlow confidence
EG Risk
69
EG Risk 69/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity93% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.3 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation68% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
68%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.3): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.3 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.3 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v2.0 · CVSS v2.0AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EG Likelihood
68% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says. In the directive's words, “Fix on system upgrade” means that, “unless conditions change”, the vulnerability “should be remediated the next time the vulnerable asset receives a scheduled major upgrade or rebuild”: its timelines are “dynamic as facts change”, and a KEV listing shortens them.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says. In the directive's words, “Fix on system upgrade” means that, “unless conditions change”, the vulnerability “should be remediated the next time the vulnerable asset receives a scheduled major upgrade or rebuild”: its timelines are “dynamic as facts change”, and a KEV listing shortens them.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

July 21, 2001

Last Modified

June 16, 2026

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 58× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 5 repeat rows among the latest 98 are merged into the row they repeat.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 68% · 99th percentile
  2. 2026-11-01 21:42 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-01 21:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  4. 2026-10-31 22:29 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-31 22:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  6. 2026-10-31 16:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 68% · 99th percentile
  7. 2026-10-30 23:17 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-30 23:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  9. 2026-10-30 16:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 68% · 99th percentile
  10. 2026-10-30 00:05 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-30 00:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  12. 2026-10-29 00:53 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-29 00:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  14. 2026-10-28 16:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 68% · 99th percentile
  15. 2026-10-28 01:37 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-28 01:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  17. 2026-10-27 16:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 68% · 99th percentile
  18. 2026-10-27 02:20 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-27 02:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  20. 2026-10-25 23:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  21. 2026-10-25 20:55 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-25 16:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 68% · 99th percentile
  23. 2026-10-24 23:52 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-24 23:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  25. 2026-10-24 16:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 68% · 99th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-24 00:41 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-24 00:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  3. 2026-10-23 16:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 68% · 99th percentile
  4. 2026-10-23 01:29 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-23 01:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
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  7. 2026-10-22 02:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  8. 2026-10-21 16:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 68% · 99th percentile
  9. 2026-10-21 03:05 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-21 03:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  11. 2026-10-20 16:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 68% · 99th percentile
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  13. 2026-10-20 03:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  14. 2026-10-19 16:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 68% · 99th percentile
  15. 2026-10-19 04:38 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-19 04:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
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  18. 2026-10-18 05:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  19. 2026-10-17 06:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  20. 2026-10-16 16:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 68% · 99th percentile
  21. 2026-10-16 06:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  22. 2026-10-15 05:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  23. 2026-10-14 16:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 68% · 99th percentile
  24. 2026-10-14 01:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  25. 2026-10-13 16:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 68% · 99th percentile
  26. 2026-10-12 21:25 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-10-12 21:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
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  29. 2026-10-11 13:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 68% · 99th percentile
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  35. 2026-07-26 13:21 UTCEG score recomputeAssessed again: 9.3 HIGH
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  37. 2026-07-23 00:25 UTCEG score recompute▼ 6.30
  38. 2026-07-22 23:47 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 6.3 MEDIUM
  39. 2026-07-22 21:27 UTCEG score recompute▼ 9.00
  40. 2026-07-20 17:02 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 68% · 99th percentile
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  61. 2026-05-31 20:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3m99-vrqx-m6h7 · GitHub severity HIGH
  62. 2026-05-31 00:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
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Publicly available exploits

(6 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 4 Exploit-DB entries), as is 1 Nuclei detection template. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. No release with the fix is confirmed, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until one is applied.

  • Metasploitauxiliary/scanner/http/cisco_ios_auth_bypass✓ verified
    Published Dec 10, 2010

    Cisco IOS HTTP Unauthorized Administrative Access

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-20975✓ verified
    Published Jun 27, 2001

    Cisco IOS 11.x/12.x - HTTP Configuration Arbitrary Administrative Access (1)

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-20976✓ verified
    Published Jun 27, 2001

    Cisco IOS 11.x/12.x - HTTP Configuration Arbitrary Administrative Access (2)

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-20978✓ verified
    Published Jun 27, 2001

    Cisco IOS 11.x/12.x - HTTP Configuration Arbitrary Administrative Access (4)

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-20977✓ verified
    Published Mar 7, 2001

    Cisco IOS 11.x/12.x - HTTP Configuration Arbitrary Administrative Access (3)

    Open source ↗
  • Nucleihttp/cves/2001/CVE-2001-0537.yaml
    Published Jun 24, 2023

    Cisco IOS HTTP Configuration - Authentication Bypass

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(4)

What is CVE-2001-0537?
CVE-2001-0537 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 21, 2001. HTTP server for Cisco IOS 11.3 to 12.2 allows attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands, when local authorization is being used, by specifying a high access level in the URL.
When was CVE-2001-0537 made public?
CVE-2001-0537 was made public on June 27, 2001: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, MITRE Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on July 21, 2001. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 16, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2001-0537 actively exploited?
CVE-2001-0537 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EchelonGraph's EG-KEV model places it in Tier 2 (Weaponized), which is not evidence of exploitation: a Metasploit module exists for it, and Exploit-DB marks a public exploit for it as verified. EchelonGraph does not test whether exploit code works. FIRST EPSS estimates a 68% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
How do I remediate CVE-2001-0537?
A fix for CVE-2001-0537 is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but EchelonGraph has no release containing it on record. Check that reference and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains the fix and update to it; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.

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