CVE-2001-1078

highpriority · attend · 52EPSS 0.054 · 93 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

4 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

5.44% (93rd) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

15 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Format string vulnerability in flog function of eXtremail 1.1.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via format specifiers in the SMTP commands (1) HELO, (2) EHLO, (3) MAIL FROM, or (4) RCPT TO, and the POP3 commands (5) USER and (6) other commands that can be executed after POP3 authentication.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v2.09highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-134USLLM-inferred

exploits (4)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-20952eXtremail 1.x/2.1 - Remote Format String (1)functional · exploit_db
EDB-20953eXtremail 1.x/2.1 - Remote Format String (2)functional · exploit_db
EDB-20954eXtremail 1.x/2.1 - Remote Format String (3)functional · exploit_db
EDB-49eXtremail 1.5.x (Linux) - Remote Format Stringsfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (15)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
extremail extremail= 1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
extremail extremail= 1.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
extremail extremail= 1.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
extremail extremail= 1.0.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
extremail extremail= 1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
extremail extremail= 1.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
extremail extremail= 1.1.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
extremail extremail= 1.1.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
extremail extremail= 1.1.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
extremail extremail= 1.1.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
extremail extremail= 1.1.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
extremail extremail= 1.1.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
extremail extremail= 1.1.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
extremail extremail= 1.1.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:extremail:extremail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2001-06-21modified 2026-06-16

references (10)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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