CVE-2001-1231: Novell Groupwise

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

GroupWise 5.5 and 6 running in live remote or smart caching mode allows remote attackers to read arbitrary users' mailboxes by extracting usernames and passwords from sniffed network traffic, as addressed by the "Padlock" fix.

Affected products

• Novell Groupwise: version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

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