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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2000-0248 in the critical feed json

The web GUI for the Linux Virtual Server (LVS) software in the Red Hat Linux Piranha package has a backdoor password that allows remote att…

published 2000-04-24 26 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2000-0247

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
73.7%
EPSS 73.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.4%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

The web GUI for the Linux Virtual Server (LVS) software in the Red Hat Linux Piranha package has a backdoor password that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2000-0248 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/linux/http/piranha_passwd_exec)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

73.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/linux/http/piranha_passwd_exec RedHat Piranha Virtual Server Package passwd.php3 Arbitrary Command Execution metasploit exploit, excellent rank, 2000-04-04
  • EDB-19879 RedHat 6.2 Piranha Virtual Server Package - Default Account and Password remote, 2000-04-24
  • EDB-16858 RedHat Piranha Virtual Server Package - 'passwd.php3' Arbitrary Command Execution (Metasploit) webapps, 2010-10-18

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.