{"id":"CVE-2001-1527","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2001-1527","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:37:50.833Z","title":"easyNews 1.5 and earlier stores administration passwords in cleartext in settings.php, which allows local users to obtain the passwords and gain access.","description":"easyNews 1.5 and earlier stores administration passwords in cleartext in settings.php, which allows local users to obtain the passwords and gain access.","published":"2001-12-31T05:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T21:56:26.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":2.1,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":["easyscripts/easynews"],"epss":{"score":0.00312,"percentile":0.23903,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.31%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-12/0000.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7659.php","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-12/0000.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7659.php","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2001-1527","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}