Vulnerability in Ncipher

CVE-2001-0081

swinit in nCipher does not properly disable the Operator Card Set recovery feature even when explicitly disabled by the user, which could allow attackers to gain access to application keys.

Published 2001-02-12 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.014 (71.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 71.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Ncipher

References

archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-12/0152.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Patch)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5999 (vdb-entry)
active.ncipher.com/updates/advisory.txt (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
www.osvdb.org/4849 (vdb-entry)