Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2000-0373

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-0373 describes a vulnerability within the KDE kvt terminal program that permits local users to escalate their privileges to root. This high-severity vulnerability, rated 7.2 CVSS, has a low attack complexity and requires local access, but if exploited, it grants complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Despite its critical impact, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit codes in Metasploit or ExploitDB. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are also non-existent, indicating a lack of widespread attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kde:kvt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 38th percentile among its peer group of 3,241 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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2000-0373

security flaw

Jun 8, 1999

References

ftp.calderasystems.com / pub/OpenLinux/security/CSSA-1999-015.0.txt
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/2266
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA1999015_01.html
PatchVendor Advisory