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CVE-2000-0752

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-0752 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the brouted daemon, primarily affecting FreeBSD and potentially other operating systems. This flaw allows a local attacker to achieve root privileges by supplying overly long command-line arguments. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), this vulnerability presents a significant risk due to its low attack complexity and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, readily available exploit code in common frameworks like Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.0:alpha:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 39th percentile among its peer group of 3,235 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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/freebsd/2000-08/0339.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/1629
PatchVendor Advisory