CVE-2001-0669

CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Description

Various Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) including (1) Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System, (2) Cisco Catalyst 6000 Intrusion Detection System Module, (3) Dragon Sensor 4.x, (4) Snort before 1.8.1, (5) ISS RealSecure Network Sensor 5.x and 6.x before XPU 3.2, and (6) ISS RealSecure Server Sensor 5.5 and 6.0 for Windows, allow remote attackers to evade detection of HTTP attacks via non-standard "%u" Unicode encoding of ASCII characters in the requested URL.

Affected Products
8
Vendor Product Version
cisco catalyst_6000_intrusion_detection_system_module All versions
cisco secure_intrusion_detection_system All versions
iss realsecure_network_sensor 5.x
iss realsecure_network_sensor 6.x
iss realsecure_server_sensor 5.5
iss realsecure_server_sensor 6.0
snort snort 1.8.1
enterasys dragon 4.x
Weakness Types
NVD-CWE-Other
CVE Information
CVE ID:
CVE-2001-0669
Published:
2001-10-30
Modified:
2026-04-16
CVSS Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected Vendors
snort enterasys iss cisco
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CVSS Severity Scale
0.0 - 3.9 LOW
4.0 - 6.9 MEDIUM
7.0 - 8.9 HIGH
9.0 - 10.0 CRITICAL