Vulnerability Report

CVE-2000-0352

RCE

Title: Pine URL handling fails to filter shell metacharacters leading to command execution

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2000-0352.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Nov 18, 1999

Modified Date Apr 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.73%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2000-0352: Pine before version 4.21 does not properly filter shell metacharacters from URLs, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malformed URL.

Impacted Vendors

university_of_washington 1

washington 1

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/OpenLinux/security/CSSA-1999-036.0.txt http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_36.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/810 http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=Pine.LNX.4.10.9911171818220.12375-100000%40ray.compu-aid.com ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/OpenLinux/security/CSSA-1999-036.0.txt http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_36.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/810 http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=Pine.LNX.4.10.9911171818220.12375-100000%40ray.compu-aid.com

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2000-0352 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.

November 18, 1999 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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.