What is CVE-2001-0682?

CVE-2001-0682 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Checkpoint Zonealarm Pro, classified under Improper Locking. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2001-08-29.

How severe is CVE-2001-0682?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Checkpoint Zonealarm Pro

CVE-2001-0682

ZoneAlarm and ZoneAlarm Pro allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service by running a trojan to initialize a ZoneAlarm mutex object which prevents ZoneAlarm from starting.

Published 2001-08-29 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (9.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 10th percentile — 9.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-667 — Improper Locking

References

marc.info/ (mailing-list, Mailing List)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5821 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2001-0682?: CVE-2001-0682 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Checkpoint Zonealarm Pro, classified under Improper Locking. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2001-08-29.
How severe is CVE-2001-0682?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.