CVE-2001-0675

The Bat! 1.51 - Denial of Service via Malformed Email Header

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2001-0675. PoCs published by 3APA3A.

AI-analyzed exploit summary The exploit describes a denial of service vulnerability in 'The Bat!' MUA where malformed email messages with carriage return characters not followed by linefeeds can disrupt the POP3 mail download process. This causes the application to misinterpret the message structure and halt further email retrieval.

Description

Rit Research Labs The Bat! 1.51 for Windows allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by sending an email to a user's account containing a carriage return <CR> that is not followed by a line feed <LF>.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP VERIFIED
by 3APA3A · textdoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20783

The exploit describes a denial of service vulnerability in 'The Bat!' MUA where malformed email messages with carriage return characters not followed by linefeeds can disrupt the POP3 mail download process. This causes the application to misinterpret the message structure and halt further email retrieval.

Classification
Writeup 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: The Bat! (version not specified)
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Access to send an email to the target's POP3 account
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-04/0381.html
Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-04/0410.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6423
Exploit, Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-04/0345.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2636

Scores

EPSS 0.0321
EPSS Percentile 86.5%

Details

Status published
Products (1)
ritlabs/the_bat 1.51
Published Sep 20, 2001
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026