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CVE-2000-0655

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-0655 describes a vulnerability in Netscape Communicator 4.73 and earlier, where a specially crafted JPEG image containing an illegal comment field length can lead to a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. This medium-severity vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and no authentication, primarily impacting availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, an exploit for a heap overwrite related to JPEG comments exists on ExploitDB, and the CVE has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
m15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:m15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netscape:communicator:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.05CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netscape:communicator:4.05:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netscape:communicator:4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5_betaCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netscape:communicator:4.5_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
12.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20098 · Jul 25, 2000
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1272 is in the 95th 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2000-0655

security flaw

Jul 24, 2000

References

ftp.freebsd.org / pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:39.netscape.asc
ftp.netbsd.org / pub/NetBSD/misc/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2000-011.txt.asc
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0456.html
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0116.html
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_60.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2000-046.html
securityfocus.com / bid/1503
securityfocus.com / frames
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
turbolinux.com / pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-August/000016.html