CVE-2001-0616: Faust Informatics Freestyle Chat

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 7.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Faust Informatics Freestyle Chat server prior to 4.1 SR3 allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via a URL request which includes a MS-DOS device name (e.g., GET /aux HTTP/1.0).

Affected products

• Faust Informatics Freestyle Chat: up to and including 4.1

Published 2001-08-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.