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CVE-2000-0279

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-0279 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting BeOS versions 4.0, 4.5, and 5.0. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending malformed IP packets where the length field is less than the actual header length. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), indicating it can be exploited over the network with low complexity to cause partial availability impact. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, an ExploitDB entry exists, and there is no significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:be:beos:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:be:beos:4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:be:beos:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-19841 · Apr 7, 2000
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0728 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 23,684 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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2000-04/0029.html
bebugs.be.com / devbugs/detail.php3
securityfocus.com / bid/1100