Vulnerability Report

CVE-2000-0963

Title: ncurses environment-variable overflow allows local code execution

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2000-0963.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 19, 2000

Modified Date Jul 23, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.68%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2000-0963: Buffer overflow in ncurses library allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via long environmental information such as TERM or TERMINFO_DIRS.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-036.0.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/138550 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1142 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44487 http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-036.0.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/138550 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1142 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44487

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2000-0963 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

July 23, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 19, 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:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.