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CVE-2000-0157

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-0157 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in NetBSD on VAX systems, where a local user can gain elevated privileges by manipulating the Process Status Longword (PSL) during a ptrace debugging call. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.2, indicating a critical impact with complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, achievable with low attack complexity and no authentication. Despite its severity, there is no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) and no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 25th percentile among its peer group of 3,237 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

ftp.netbsd.org / pub/NetBSD/misc/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA1999-012.txt.asc
securityfocus.com / bid/992