CVE-2000-0585 describes a critical vulnerability in the ISC DHCP client program, dhclient, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This is achieved by injecting shell metacharacters, leading to a complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with a CVSS score of 10.0. Despite its high severity and ease of exploitation (network-based, low complexity, no authentication), there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decades-old flaw.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:isc:dhcp_client:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0b1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:isc:dhcp_client:3.0b1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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