CVE-2000-0711 describes a critical vulnerability in Netscape Communicator and Microsoft Virtual Machine where untrusted applets could create a server socket on a victim's system, enabling remote attackers to establish a listening server. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) has a low attack complexity and requires no authentication, allowing for potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation is currently reported and it's not on the KEV catalog, a proof-of-concept exploit for Sun JDK/JRE 1.1.x exists on ExploitDB, indicating its historical exploitability. Despite its age, the vulnerability has minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2000CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:virtual_machine:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3100CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:virtual_machine:3100:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3200CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:virtual_machine:3200:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3300CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:virtual_machine:3300:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:netscape:communicator:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.