CVE-2000-1193 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Performance Metrics Collector Daemon (PMCD) within Performance Co-Pilot on SGI IRIX 6.x systems. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending an extremely long string to the PMCD port, leading to resource exhaustion. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and no authentication required, resulting in partial availability impact. Its FAUCET Risk Score is high at 93/100, despite a low EPSS score. While not actively exploited in the wild (no KEV entry), exploit code for this vulnerability is publicly available on ExploitDB. There is also some community discussion, with 10 mentions, including references to GitHub and a NASL script.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.