Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2000-0981

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-0981 describes a weak authentication method in the MySQL Database Engine, specifically affecting Oracle MySQL, which can leak information allowing a remote attacker to recover passwords. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a local attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its age and severity, there is no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor any community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:3.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:3.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:3.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:3.23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0193 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 3,241 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/bugtraq/2000-10/0318.html
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/5409
mysql.com / documentation/mysql/commented/manual.php