Vulnerability Report

CVE-2000-0847

RCE

Title: University of Washington c-client X-Keywords header overflow

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2000-0847.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Nov 14, 2000

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.43%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2000-0847: Buffer overflow in University of Washington c-client library (used by pine and other programs) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long X-Keywords header.

Impacted Vendors

university_of_washington 2

washington 1

cyrus 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0425.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0437.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/freebsd/2000-09/0108.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1646 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1687 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5223 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0425.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0437.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/freebsd/2000-09/0108.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1646 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1687 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5223

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2000-0847 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 14, 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:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.