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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2000-0177 json

DNSTools CGI applications allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.

published 2000-03-02 26 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2000-0176

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
9.9%
EPSS 9.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

DNSTools CGI applications allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-19786)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

9.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-19786 DNSTools Software DNSTools 1.0.8/1.10 - Input Validation remote, 2000-03-02

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.