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CVE-2001-0460

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2001-06-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Websweeper 4.0 does not limit the length of certain HTTP headers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via an extremely large HTTP Referrer: header.

Affected products

• Baltimore Technologies Websweeper: 4.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/167406
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6214
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/167406
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6214

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