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CVE-2000-0116

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-0116 describes a critical vulnerability in Check Point Firewall-1 where an attacker can bypass the "Strip Script Tags" security feature by prepending an extra "<" to the SCRIPT tag. This allows for remote code execution with potential for full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as indicated by its CVSS score of 7.5 (High). While not actively exploited in the wild or on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists, and its FAUCET Risk Score of 89/100 suggests a significant threat. Despite its age, the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:checkpoint:firewall-1:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-19732 · Jan 29, 2000
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0248 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

osvdb.org / 1212
securityfocus.com / bid/954