Vulnerability Report

CVE-2000-0353

RCE

Title: Pine 4.x executes uudecoded files fetched via lynx from index.html

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2000-0353.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jun 28, 1999

Modified Date Apr 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.36%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2000-0353: Pine 4.x allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands via an index.html file which executes lynx and obtains a uudecoded file from a malicious web server, which is then executed by Pine.

Impacted Vendors

university_of_washington 1

washington 1

Reference Links

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/pine_update_announcement.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_6.html http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/HHP-Pine_remote_exploit.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1247 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/pine_update_announcement.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_6.html http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/HHP-Pine_remote_exploit.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1247

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-2000-0353 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.

June 28, 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.