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CVE-2000-0989

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-0989 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the POP service of Intel InBusiness eMail Station version 1.04.87. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service and potentially execute arbitrary commands by submitting an excessively long username. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring no authentication, and primarily leading to availability impact. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit modules, a denial-of-service exploit is available on ExploitDB, and the CVE has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4.87CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:intel:inbusiness_email_station:1.4.87:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20328 · Oct 20, 2000
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0462 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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/2000-10/0293.html
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/5414
osvdb.org / 6488