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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2000-0909 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in the automatic mail checking component of Pine 4.21 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via…

published 2000-12-19 25 y ago modified 2026-09-23 46 d ago also EUVD-2000-0896

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.5%
EPSS 11.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in the automatic mail checking component of Pine 4.21 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long From: header.

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-2000-0909 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 (EDB-20237)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

11.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-20237 UoW Pine 4.0.4/4.10/4.21 - 'From:' Remote Buffer Overflow remote, 2000-09-23
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1709 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.