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CVE-2000-0909

33
FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-0909 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the automatic mail checking component of Pine versions 4.21 and earlier, impacting the University of Washington's Pine email client. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.5) allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by sending a specially crafted, long "From:" header. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, an ExploitDB entry exists, indicating proof-of-concept code is publicly available, though community discussion and media coverage are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
11.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20237 · Sep 23, 2000
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1150 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2000-0909

security flaw

Sep 22, 2000

References

ftp.freebsd.org / pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:59.pine.asc
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0441.html
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/5283
linux-mandrake.com / en/security/MDKSA-2000-073.php3
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2000-102.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/84901
securityfocus.com / bid/1709
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory