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CVE-2000-0963

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-0963 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the ncurses library, impacting products like FreeBSD, GNU, Immunix, and Red Hat. This flaw allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by supplying excessively long environmental variables such as TERM or TERMINFO_DIRS. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), it presents a significant risk due to its low attack complexity and potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:immunix:immunix:6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0_betaCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:immunix:immunix:7.0_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
48.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0068 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 3,237 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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-2000-0963

security flaw

Oct 9, 2000

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/44487
VDB EntryVendor Advisory
calderasystems.com / support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-036.0.txt
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/138550
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/1142
Broken LinkExploitPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB EntryVendor Advisory