Vulnerability Report

CVE-2000-0087

Title: Netscape nsnotify uses IMAP without SSL exposing credentials

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2000-0087.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jan 12, 2000

Modified Date Apr 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.81%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2000-0087: Netscape Mail Notification (nsnotify) utility in Netscape Communicator uses IMAP without SSL, even if the user has set a preference for Communicator to use an SSL connection, allowing a remote attacker to sniff usernames and passwords in plaintext.

Impacted Vendors

netscape 2

cloudera 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=94790377622943&w=2 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/4385.php http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=94790377622943&w=2 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/4385.php

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2000-0087 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 12, 2000 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.