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CVE-2000-0163

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-0163 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting FreeBSD versions 3.0 through 3.4, specifically within the asmon and ascpu utilities. A local attacker can exploit this flaw by manipulating a configuration file to gain root privileges, leading to complete compromise of the system's confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the CVSS score is 4.6 (MEDIUM) due to requiring local access, public exploit code exists (EDB-19756), though there is no indication of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-19756 · Feb 19, 2000
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0072 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 3,049 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 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

securityfocus.com / bid/996
securityfocus.com / templates/advisory.html