CVE-2001-1057: Wolfram Research Mathematica

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The License Manager (mathlm) for Mathematica 4.0 and 4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by connecting to port 16286 and not disconnecting, which prevents users from making license requests.

Affected products

• Wolfram Research Mathematica: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only

Published 2001-07-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.